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break someone in


phrasal verb with breakverbuk /breɪk/ us /breɪk/broke | broken
If you break someone in, you train them to do a new job or activity: 训练…;培训…
The boss did not believe in breaking his team in gently.老板并不认可逐步培训员工的方式。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Preparing
batten
batten down the hatchesidiom
bug-out bag
build (someone/something) up
calibrate
dig
gear (someone/something) up
get/have your ducks in a rowidiom
gird
gird yourselfidiom
go bag
lay
prep
preparation
regroom
roll up your sleevesidiom
set something up
set the scene/stageidiom
suit
tee

break something in


phrasal verb with breakverbuk /breɪk/ us /breɪk/broke | broken
to wear new shoes or use new equipment for short periods to make them more comfortable: 使(新物件等)经使用后逐渐合用;磨合
My new hiking boots will be great once I've broken them in.我的新爬山靴穿合脚后将会很棒的。
to train a horse to be tame(= not wild or frightened of people, and safe around them) so that it can be ridden or used to pull a vehicle:
He was the only one who could break in the new horses.
In just a few hours they can take a wild colt and break it in.
All six horses were broken in.
Synonym
break
US(UKrun something in)
If you break in a vehicle, you use it carefully and slowly for a short time when it is new, so that you do not damage its engine.(小心缓慢地)试开(新车),使(新车发动机)试转
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Using and misusing
adopt
adoption
avail
avail yourself of something
be/go heavy on somethingidiom
exhaust
go into something
go through
gobble something up
make capital out of somethingidiom
max
spare
spent
swallow
tap
turn to someone/something
turn/use something to good accountidiom
unblock
underuse
underused

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Horse riding

break in


phrasal verb with breakverbuk /breɪk/ us /breɪk/broke | broken
to interrupt when someone else is talking: 打断谈话,插嘴
As she was talking, he suddenly broke in, saying, "That's a lie."她正在说话时,他突然插嘴道:“撒谎!”
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Interrupting & preventing from speaking
accost
barge
belt up
blurt something out
chime
chip
chip (something) in
horn in
interpolation
interrupt
interruption
mike check
nobble
not get a word in edgewaysidiom
put a sock in it!idiom
put something in
shut your mouth/faceidiom
speak
strike
waylay
break-in
noun[ C ]
uk /ˈbreɪk.ɪn/ us /ˈbreɪk.ɪn/
an occasion when a building is entered illegally by a criminal or criminals, usually by damaging a window or door, especially in order to steal something闯入,破门而入;(尤指)入室盗窃
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Stealing
abscond
abscond with someone/something
aggravated burglary
anti-burglar
anti-burglary
eavesdrop
housebreaking
jemmy
jimmy
job
joyride
plunder
poach
poaching
porch piracy
purloin
rustle
rustling
snaffle
snitch

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Arriving, entering and invading

break in | American Dictionary


break in


phrasal verb with breakverbus/breɪk/

(ENTER ILLEGALLY)


to enter a building illegally, usually by damaging a door or window, esp. for the purpose of stealing something:
Thieves broke into our office downtown and stole the computers.

break in someone/something


phrasal verb with breakverbus/breɪk/

(TRAIN)


to train a person to do a new job, to train an animal to behave in an obedient way, or to use something to make it not as new and more comfortable:
We will have to break in three new staff members.
I’m still breaking in this new pair of running shoes.
break-in
noun[ C ]
us/ˈbreɪkˌɪn/
the crime of entering a building by damaging a door or window, usually in order to steal:
After the break-in, we installed a new security system.

break sb in | Business English


break sb in


phrasal verb with breakverb[ T ]uk /breɪk/usbroke | broken
to train someone to do a new job or activity:
The boss did not believe in breaking in his staff gently.

Examples of break someone in


break someone in
She had had a break-in, hated being on her own and wanted to move to somewhere where she would be looked after.
The top trace was recorded upon break-in, and the lower traces were obtained 25 s and 38 s later.
Cells were included in the study only if there was a very tight seal on the soma with no leak prior to break-in.
The guard who falls asleep at his post is responsible for the break-in, even though the burglar is also, indeed primarily, responsible.
The book should appeal to students following a first course in control systems requiring a gentle break-in to the subject.
Sometimes it is going to be confronted with very big news—a break-in in its own area, a plane crash, a train crash, a riot.
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The liability would arise in this way: a burglary, or a break-in could, indeed would, occur in private premises.
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They included a break-in at an electricity station, resulting in the black-out of hundreds of homes.
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One would never expect them to visit the scene of a house break-in.
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However, a single break-in could involve three offences.
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People on estates are victims of some of the worst vandalism, break-in rates and consequences of drug dealing.
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He told me that when there is a break-in the first question invariably is: who checked the premises?
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Any incident of break-in is always referred to the police for investigation.
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The advantage of nuclears to the defender arises only before the break-in, but in this case there is nothing to breakin.
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Especially at risk are the elderly, who find a break-in particularly traumatic.
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