Usually means: Overcome obstacles, achieve significant success.
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We found 20 dictionaries that define the word break through:

General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. break through: Merriam-Webster
  2. break through: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. break through: Collins English Dictionary
  4. break through: Vocabulary.com
  5. Break-Through, Break-through, break-through: Wordnik
  6. break through: Wiktionary
  7. break through: Dictionary.com
  8. Break Through (album), Break Through (book), Break Through (play), Break Through, Break-through: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. break through: Rhymezone
  10. break through: FreeDictionary.org
  11. break through: Mnemonic Dictionary
  12. break through: TheFreeDictionary.com
  13. break through: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. break through: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. break through: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. break through: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. break through: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. break through: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (break through)

verb:  Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see break, through.
verb:  (intransitive) To gain popularity.
verb:  (intransitive, sports) To penetrate the defence of the opposition.
verb:  (transitive) To make or force a way through (a barrier)

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