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breakthrough

Pronunciation:  'breyk`throo

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 Definition: 
  1. [n]  making an important discovery
  2. [n]  a penetration of an enemy's defense in depth and strength
  3. [n]  a productive insight
 
 Synonyms: discovery, find
 
 See Also: brainstorm, brainwave, discovery, find, incursion, insight, penetration, uncovering

 

 

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 Related Terms: aggravated assault, aggression, amphibious attack, armed assault, assailing, assailment, assault, attack, avant-propos, banzai attack, blitz, blitzkrieg, boost, charge, coinage, counterattack, counteroffensive, coup de main, crippling attack, dead set at, descent on, discovery, diversion, diversionary attack, drive, exordium, flank attack, foreword, front matter, frontal attack, frontispiece, gas attack, head-on attack, hike, increase, infiltration, innovation, introduction, invention, leap, lightning attack, lightning war, mass attack, megadeath, mugging, neologism, new phase, novelty, offense, offensive, onset, onslaught, overkill, overture, panzer warfare, postulate, preamble, preface, prefix, prefixture, preliminary, prelude, premise, presupposition, proem, prolegomena, prolegomenon, prolepsis, prologue, protasis, push, run against, run at, rush, sally, shock tactics, sortie, strike, unprovoked assault, upgrade, verse, voluntary, wax
 

 

 

 

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