break into a run

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Verb

break into a run (third-person singular simple present breaks into a run, present participle breaking into a run, simple past broke into a run, past participle broken into a run)

  1. (intransitive, idiomatic) To start running.
    When they realized they might miss the train, they broke into a run.

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