Usually means: End or terminate a relationship.
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We found 24 dictionaries that define the word break off:

General (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. break off: Merriam-Webster
  2. break-off, break off: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. break off: Collins English Dictionary
  4. break off: Vocabulary.com
  5. break-off: Wordnik
  6. break (sth) off: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. break-off, break off: Wiktionary
  8. break-off, break off: Dictionary.com
  9. break off: Rhymezone
  10. break off: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. break off: FreeDictionary.org
  12. break off: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. break off: TheFreeDictionary.com
  14. break off: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. break off: Legal dictionary
  2. break off: Financial dictionary

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

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

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

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. break off, break off, break off: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Totally Unofficial Rap (No longer online)

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Break off: Skydiving Glossary

Definitions from Wiktionary (break off)

verb:  (transitive) To remove a piece from a whole by breaking or snapping.
verb:  (intransitive) To become detached by breaking or snapping.
verb:  (transitive) To discontinue abruptly.
verb:  (intransitive) To end abruptly, either temporarily or permanently.
verb:  (ambitransitive, billiards, snooker) To play the first shot in a frame of snooker, billiards or pool.
verb:  (transitive, slang, African-American Vernacular) To give (someone) (something); to allow (someone) to take (something); to grant (someone) a share or portion of (something).

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