break through
phrasal verbbreak through
- to make new and important discoveries
- Scientists think they are beginning to break through in the fight against cancer.
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break through | break through something
- to make a way through something using force
- Demonstrators broke through the police cordon.
- The defending champions tried hard to stop the Yale attack, but they managed to break through and score.
- (of the sun or moon) to appear from behind clouds
- The sun broke through at last in the afternoon.
- At last the moon broke through the clouds and they could see their way.
break through something