Usually means: Forcefully split or crack apart.
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  1. break open: Merriam-Webster
  2. break open: Vocabulary.com
  3. break open: Wiktionary
  4. break open: Dictionary.com
  5. Break open: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  6. break open: Rhymezone
  7. break open: FreeDictionary.org
  8. break open: Mnemonic Dictionary
  9. break open: TheFreeDictionary.com

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

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

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

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  1. break open: Idioms

Definitions from Wiktionary (break open)

verb:  (ambitransitive) Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see break, open.
verb:  To make a breakthrough on a mystery or problem; to cause a breakthrough to be made.

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