Synonyms for break out
break out

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1. break outverb

   to separate from a bundle

   Break out the cables from the harness once they are inside the frame.

   Synonyms:
   sunder out

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1. erupt, break outverb

   start abruptly

   "After 1989, peace broke out in the former East Bloc"

   Synonyms:
   come out, flare up, catch fire, ignite, break through, extravasate, belch, flare, break open, break, burst, combust, irrupt, erupt, burst out, conflagrate, push through, recrudesce, take fire, break away

2. break outverb

   begin suddenly and sometimes violently

   "He broke out shouting"

   Synonyms:
   erupt, recrudesce, break, break away

3. break, break out, break awayverb

   move away or escape suddenly

   "The horses broke from the stable"; "Three inmates broke jail"; "Nobody can break out--this prison is high security"

   Synonyms:
   crack, break away, give way, soften, run, reveal, develop, unwrap, conk out, collapse, die, transgress, founder, weaken, discover, chip, snap off, stop, go, bunk, demote, separate, turn tail, split, give away, damp, smash, fly the coop, interrupt, offend, get out, fracture, relegate, chip off, bring out, violate, divulge, pause, scarper, let on, get around, escape, wear out, cave in, break-dance, break up, check, give out, break in, give, split up, secede, splinter, better, burst, go bad, take to the woods, breach, break off, disclose, bust, erupt, recrudesce, break dance, go against, dampen, break down, fall in, bump, let out, ruin, fall apart, hightail it, kick downstairs, scat, part, lam, infract, run away, head for the hills, fail, come apart, bankrupt, come off, expose, break, discontinue, intermit, wear

4. break outverb

   take from stowage in preparation for use

   Synonyms:
   erupt, recrudesce, break, break away

5. erupt, recrudesce, break outverb

   become raw or open

   "He broke out in hives"; "My skin breaks out when I eat strawberries"; "Such boils tend to recrudesce"

   Synonyms:
   come out, flare up, catch fire, ignite, break through, extravasate, belch, develop, flare, break open, break, burst, combust, irrupt, erupt, burst out, conflagrate, push through, recrudesce, take fire, break away

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1. break out

   Synonyms:
   issue, break forth, burst out

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1. Jenny Lisette Flores:

   I had to break out of my role as a lawyer. I let him sit on my lap, I wiped away his tears, and I teared up too. Here was a child, the same age as my son, stuck in a hellhole.

2. Rick Meckler:

   Stocks have been trying to break out of the narrow trading range but Greece has kept a cap on that.

3. Federico Lombardi:

   But you know that going to Mexico without going to visit the Madonna (of Guadalupe) would be a drama. A war could break out!

4. Suu Kyi:

   The most important thing is that it's a long-lasting ceasefire deal. No fighting should break out again on the next day after signing of the agreement.

5. Ali Saleh:

   Everybody's afraid of the possibility that fighting will break out in Sanaa, and we ask God to protect us.