breaking with
Severing ties with
Breaking with means departing from or ending adherence to something established—a tradition, convention, relationship, or pattern of behavior.
The phrase implies a deliberate separation from what came before: Breaking with family tradition, she skipped the annual reunion.
The new policy represents a breaking with decades of precedent.
- quittingCeasing an activity
- walking awayDeparting on foot
- divorceLegal end of matrimony
- cutting tiesEnding a relationship completely
- apostasyRenunciation of former beliefs
rebellion · dissent · severance · defection · jumping ship · going rogue · resignation · reorientation · cessation · renunciation · pivoting · schism · counterculture · estrangement · burning bridges · termination · disassociation · alienation
breaking withmaintaining
Keeping in condition
preserving · upholding · sustaining · perpetuating · standing by
breaking withfollowing
Coming after another
abiding by · observing · honoring · respecting · embracing
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