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What is the meaning of break in this sentence "he'd broke and run". For the context: it's a boy bullying by three other boys. They holding him to hurting him. When one of the bullies " break and run". Is this means that the bully couldn't take it anymore and he ran away maybe because he was scared. Thanks

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    He must have let go of the hold (broke away) and ran off.
    – Yosef Baskin
    Aug 31 at 22:56
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    Or that the bully saw an adult coming and broke (let go, in this context, perhaps) and ran. Or the bully's will to hurt people broke. It depends on context. E.G., "Faced with the evidence, the criminal broke and confessed."
    – DrMoishe Pippik
    Sep 1 at 0:38
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    The author (or speaker) may have applied a term from a different context in a fairly unrelated sense. The collocation break and run is used in games like billiards to mean that a player in a single turn “breaks” (knocks apart the initially tightly grouped balls) and then “runs” (proceeds to knock some or all of those disturbed balls into the pockets).
    – Paul Tanenbaum
    Sep 1 at 10:54

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