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Break out

verb

Start abruptly. Synonym: erupt.

Begin suddenly and sometimes violently.

Move away or escape suddenly. Synonyms: break, break away. "Three inmates broke jail" , "Nobody can break out--this prison is high security"

Take from stowage in preparation for use.

Become raw or open. Synonyms: erupt, recrudesce. "My skin breaks out when I eat strawberries" , "Such boils tend to recrudesce"

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"Break out" Quotes from Famous Books

... next morning there were whispers about the town, articles in the different papers, evidently by authority, rejoicings among the Opposition, and a general feeling that though the Government might keep together that session, its dissensions would break out before the next ...

— Alice, or The Mysteries, Book III • Edward Bulwer Lytton

... return to the tent house at once. She saw Iron Skull up on the mountainside watching a group of Indians break out the first line of a road and she strolled over to talk to him. Jim's letters home had been full of Iron Skull and Pen felt as if she ...

— Still Jim • Honore Willsie Morrow

... was pouring forth those supplications, his eyes searched and searched her face. But there only came from her: "I don't know—I can't tell—if only I knew!" And then he was silent, stricken to the heart; till, at a look or a touch from her, he would break out again: "You do love me—you do; then what does anything ...

— Forsyte Saga • John Galsworthy

... his head with the coolness of a Red Indian, and a "slimness" all his own. The first fox doubles back along his tracks, crosses the big ride, twenty yards lower, just as that part of the pack which is hunting him flings on up the fence, and waits again till he hears them break out where he first stopped. From outside, where the field are waiting on a knoll which gives a downward view into the rolling acres of the wood, the rest of the pack are seen forcing another fox upwards towards the hills. The sight is as pretty as our woods can ...

— The Naturalist on the Thames • C. J. Cornish

... funny, Mamma, and how male creatures' instincts will break out sometimes even in a country like this, where sex does not "amount to much." We are told that now and then the most respectable father of a family will "side track," and go off on a jaunt with a glaringly golden-haired chorus ...

— Elizabeth Visits America • Elinor Glyn

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