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What does break the news mean?

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Verb
  1. To inform someone of something first, usually used when it will be difficult to tell the person.
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Their father, James, was working in Ireland and flew back to break the news to his wife who was seriously ill in hospital after sustaining severe injuries.
I hate to break the news, but molly Shannon would definitely not make it through the zombie apocalypse.
Meanwhile it has been decided, humanely, not to break the news to the orang-utan himself until the weather gets cooler.
The hardest task was to go to mam in her eighties and break the news.
I'd like some advice on how to break the news to my children without scaring them.
At first he wanted to tell only his mother, but with the guidance of a counsellor he decided to break the news to everyone in his community.

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