break a record

break the/a record

To do something to a higher or greater degree than the greatest extent currently known. With his speed, I think he'll break a record for running before he graduates from high school. If he eats one more hot dog he's going to break the record! In the summer of 1998, I was just a baseball-obsessed kid watching Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa try to break the single-season home run record.

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break a record

to destroy a previously set high record by setting a new one. The athlete broke all the school records in swimming. The league record was broken after thirty years.

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