Meaning of BREAK OUT
Pronunciation: | | breyk awt
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- [v] become raw or open; as of skin eruptions; "He broke out in hives"; "My skin breaks out when I eat strawberries"; "Such boils tend to recrudesce"
- [v] start abruptly; "After 1989, peace broke out in the former East Bloc"
- [v] begin suddenly and sometimes violently; "He broke out shouting"
- [v] take from stowage in preparation for usage
- [v] move away or escape suddenly; "The horses broke from the stable"; "Three inmates broke jail"
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| Synonyms: | | break, break away, erupt, recrudesce |
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| See Also: | | afflict, ail, begin, break loose, escape, get away, pain, start, take out, trouble, unpack | |
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| Related Terms: | | arise, be born, be brought down, be felled, be struck down, be traumatized, become, belch, blow open, blow out, break loose, break through, burst forth, burst out, catch, catch cold, clear, collapse, come down with, come forth, come out, come to be, contract, crop up, cut loose, debouch, discharge, disembarrass, disembroil, disengage, disentangle, disgorge, disinvolve, dislodge, eject, emerge, eruct, erupt, exit, explode, extricate, fever, find vent, free, get, get out, get to be, go into shock, have origin, hurl forth, irrupt, issue, issue forth, leak out, OD, ooze out, originate, overdose, release, rise, run a temperature, run out, sicken, spew, spout, spring up, take, take birth, take ill, take rise, tear loose, unknot, unravel, unsnarl, untangle, vomit |
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