break-out
Verbs
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(v) start abruptly
- After 1989, peace broke out in the former East Bloc
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(v) begin suddenly and sometimes violently
- He broke out shouting
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(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
- (v) take from stowage in preparation for use
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(v) become raw or open
- He broke out in hives
- My skin breaks out when I eat strawberries
- Such boils tend to recrudesce