break open

He is a creature of immense strength and climbs palm trees in order to pick, and break open, the cocoanuts.

During your absence this morning they got the law officers to break open your door and to take possession.

And now, behold, I break open the piled stones of your cairn, and I let in the noon between your ribs.

I can feel that my roots stick in your soil, and the old wounds are beginning to break open.

More remote from Seidlitz, they break open the sutlers' brandy-casks, and in few minutes get roaring drunk.