"break free" meaning in English

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          "text": "During the storm, the boat broke free from its moorings.",
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          "text": "To address the climate crisis, we need to break free of our addiction to fossil fuels.",
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        {
          "text": "1721, Aaron Hill, The Fatal Extravagance, London: T. Jauncy, [Scene 1], p. 9,\n[…] I saw his Lady,\nWild, with a Storm of Grief! Her Hair dishevel’d!\nAnd her loose Robes, blown, careless, by the Wind!\nStruggling, with weeping Servants, to break free."
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          "ref": "1883 June, Ralph Iron [pseudonym; Olive Schreiner], “Times and Seasons”, in The Story of an African Farm, 2nd edition, New York, N.Y.: H. M. Caldwell Company, →OCLC, part II, section VII, page 171:",
          "text": "When the soul breaks free from the arms of a superstition, bits of the claws and talons break themselves off in him. It is not the work of a day to squeeze them out.",
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          "ref": "1900 December – 1901 October, Rudyard Kipling, chapter IX, in Kim (Macmillan’s Colonial Library; no. 414), London: Macmillan and Co., published 1901, →OCLC, page 235:",
          "text": "[A]n elephant was captured for a time by the king's hunters and, ere he broke free, beringed with a grievous leg-iron.",
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          "ref": "1968, Desmond Bagley, The Vivero Letter, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Chapter 8, section 7, p. 189:",
          "text": "[…] the chopper slowed and wheeled around the treetop. It was one of the big ones whose crown had broken free of the rest to spread luxuriantly in the upper air […]",
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          "ref": "2012 April 9, Mandeep Sanghera, “Tottenham 1 - 2 Norwich”, in BBC Sport:",
          "text": "Tottenham left-back Benoit Assou-Ekotto broke free after a clever one-two with Emmanuel Adebayor, only to see his shot brilliantly saved by the Norwich keeper.",
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        "To liberate oneself; to free oneself; to become free (from or of something or someone)."
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          "liberate"
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      "related": [
        {
          "word": "emancipate"
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  "word": "break free"
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          "text": "To address the climate crisis, we need to break free of our addiction to fossil fuels.",
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          "text": "1721, Aaron Hill, The Fatal Extravagance, London: T. Jauncy, [Scene 1], p. 9,\n[…] I saw his Lady,\nWild, with a Storm of Grief! Her Hair dishevel’d!\nAnd her loose Robes, blown, careless, by the Wind!\nStruggling, with weeping Servants, to break free."
        },
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          "text": "When the soul breaks free from the arms of a superstition, bits of the claws and talons break themselves off in him. It is not the work of a day to squeeze them out.",
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        },
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          "ref": "1900 December – 1901 October, Rudyard Kipling, chapter IX, in Kim (Macmillan’s Colonial Library; no. 414), London: Macmillan and Co., published 1901, →OCLC, page 235:",
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