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(intransitive) To enter a place by force or illicit means. / (transitive, idiomatic) To cause (something, or someone, new) to function more naturally through use or wear

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(intransitive) To enter a place by force or illicit means. / (transitive, idiomatic) To cause (something, or someone, new) to function more naturally through use or wear

I need to break in my new shoes before wearing them for a long walk.

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(intransitive) To enter a place by force or illicit means.

Someone broke in and stole his radio.

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(transitive, idiomatic) To cause (something, or someone, new) to function more naturally through use or wear

These shoes will be more comfortable after I have broken them in.

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(transitive, idiomatic) Starting something brand new or at a new level.

He broke in with the New York Yankees.

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(transitive, of a horse) To tame; make obedient; to train to follow orders of the owner.

Captain had been broken in and trained for an army horse; his first owner was an officer of cavalry going out to the Crimean war. He said he quite enjoyed the training with all the other horses, trotting together, turning together, to the right hand or the left, halting at the word of command, or dashing forward at full speed at the sound of the trumpet or signal of the officer.

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