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  1. explode, burst forth, break looseverb

    be unleashed; emerge with violence or noise

    "His anger exploded"

    Synonyms:
    burst forth, blow up, leap out, effloresce, escape, set off, explode, rush out, detonate, get away, irrupt, sally out, burst

  2. escape, get away, break looseverb

    run away from confinement

    "The convicted murderer escaped from a high security prison"

    Synonyms:
    miss, scat, burst forth, escape, break away, bunk, run away, get out, get off, take to the woods, scarper, fly the coop, turn tail, run, head for the hills, elude, hightail it, get by, explode, get away, lam

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How to use break loose in a sentence?

  1. George Carlin:

    I'm not concerned about all hell breaking loose, but that a PART of hell will break loose... it'll be much harder to detect.

  2. Chet Nagle:

    That system has been excruciatingly tested, successfully, at White Sands, against simulated targets, real targets, and it does the job it was designed to do, they'll fix it whatever it is. And the fact that you have a test aircraft crash, or an aerostat break loose, doesn't invalidate the system.

  3. André Maurois:

    The need to express oneself in writing springs from a mal-adjustment to life, or from an inner conflict which the adolescent (or the grown man) cannot resolve in action. Those to whom action comes as easily as breathing rarely feel the need to break loose from the real, to rise above, and describe it... I do not mean that it is enough to be maladjusted to become a great writer, but writing is, for some, a method of resolving a conflict, provided they have the necessary talent.

  4. Chet Nagle:

    They'll fix it whatever it is. And the fact that you have a test aircraft crash, or an aerostat break loose, doesn't invalidate the system, the fact of the matter remains, the threat that this system was designed to counter hasn't gone away.

  5. Kallum Pickering:

    All hell could break loose as the various factions of parliament struggle to gain control of the Brexit process, we are probably about to enter the phase of peak uncertainty.


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