break-out

Verbs

  • (v) start abruptly
    • After 1989, peace broke out in the former East Bloc
    erupt,
  • (v) begin suddenly and sometimes violently
    • He broke out shouting
  • (v) move away or escape suddenly
    • The horses broke from the stable
    • Three inmates broke jail
    • Nobody can break out--this prison is high security
    break away, break,
  • (v) take from stowage in preparation for use
  • (v) become raw or open
    • He broke out in hives
    • My skin breaks out when I eat strawberries
    • Such boils tend to recrudesce
    recrudesce, erupt,

Synonyms

erupt break away break recrudesce

Words of close approximity

break off