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Break out   /breɪk aʊt/   Listen
Break out

verb
1.
Start abruptly.  Synonym: erupt.
2.
Begin suddenly and sometimes violently.
3.
Move away or escape suddenly.  Synonyms: break, break away.  "Three inmates broke jail" , "Nobody can break out--this prison is high security"
4.
Take from stowage in preparation for use.
5.
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



... men in their own minds do not believe that Christ is the ruler of the world, that they lose all hope of God's delivering them, and break out into mad rebellion. It is because, again, men do not believe that Christ is the ruler of the world, that, when their rebellion has failed, they sink into slavishness and dull despair, and bow their necks to the yoke of the first tyrant who arises; and try to make a covenant with death and ...
— Discipline and Other Sermons • Charles Kingsley

... assigned to her use the palace of Massa, about three miles from the sea. Here, with confidential advisers, she matured her plans. Secret agents were sent to all the principal cities in France, to organize royalist committees and to prepare for a general uprising. The plan was for the insurrection to break out first in the west of France, to be immediately followed by all ...
— Louis Philippe - Makers of History Series • John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott

... to do like a man of good conscience indeed. And in this his Appeal, he was so justified in the consciencies of the whole Congregation, that they could not but with one voice, as with one mouth, break out joyntly and say, Thou hast not defrauded ...
— The Life and Death of Mr. Badman • John Bunyan

... withhold their tokens of approbation till he got through, but it was to little purpose, for enthusiastic suffragists couldn't help letting their hands tell their ears how good the General's hard hits at the anti-suffragists made them feel, and the applause would still break out once ...
— History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II • Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Matilda Joslyn Gage

... eastern bogs swamps, and muddy rivers. The former are really dangerous only during two or three months of the year, and, moreover, a considerable portion of the trails are free from their presence, owing to the fires which break out in the dry grass almost every fall. There the traveller knows what he has to fear, and, independent of the instinct and knowledge of his horse, he himself keeps an anxious look-out, watching the undulating motion of the grass, and ever ready with his rifle ...
— Monsieur Violet • Frederick Marryat


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