Definition of "break with"

break with

verb
third-person singular simple present breaks with, present participle breaking with, simple past broke with, past participle broken with
1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see break,‎ with.
2. To cease having a positive connection with (a person, group, movement, etc).
  Quotations
  "You see, Ferdinand Point was the first wave in a culinary revolution," Jeremy went on. "He broke with French formality; he broke with fat and weighty flavours. He kicked free of the past […] "
  2001, Timothy Taylor, Stanley Park‎, Counterpoint paperback, published 2003, page 363
3. (archaic) To divulge one's secrets, thoughts or intentions, to discuss something with somebody.
  Quotations
  Here, Claudio, I have wooed in thy name, and fair Hero is won; I have broke with her father, and, his good will obtained; name the day of marriage, and God give thee joy!
  1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act II, scene i]