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break out

PRIMARY MEANINGS OF: break out

1
 v
begin suddenly and sometimes violently
2
 v
move away or escape suddenly
3
 v
take from stowage in preparation for use
4
 v
become raw or open
FULL DEFINITIONS OF: break out
1

v begin suddenly and sometimes violently

“He broke out shouting”
Type of:
begin, start
have a beginning, in a temporal, spatial, or evaluative sense

v start abruptly

“After 1989, peace broke out in the former East Bloc”
Synonyms:
erupt
Type of:
begin, start
have a beginning, in a temporal, spatial, or evaluative sense
2

v move away or escape suddenly

Synonyms:
break, break away
break
make a rupture in the ranks of the enemy or one's own by quitting or fleeing
Type of:
break loose, escape, get away
run away from confinement
3

v take from stowage in preparation for use

Type of:
take out, unpack
remove from its packing
4

v become raw or open

“He broke out in hives”
“My skin breaks out when I eat strawberries”
Synonyms:
erupt, recrudesce
Type of:
ail, pain, trouble
cause bodily suffering to and make sick or indisposed
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