break ranks (English, verb)
expansion: break ranks (third-person singular simple present breaks ranks, present participle breaking ranks, simple past broke ranks, past participle broken ranks)
Senses:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: To march or charge out of the designated order in a military unit.
glosses: To publicly disagree with one's own group or organization.
tags: idiomatic
Forms:
form: breaks ranks
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: breaking ranks
tags: participle
present
form: broke ranks
tags: past
form: broken ranks
tags: participle
past
form: break rank
tags: alternative