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begin suddenly and sometimes violently
He broke out shouting -
become raw or open
Such boils tend to recrudesce
He broke out in hives
My skin breaks out when I eat strawberries -
move away or escape suddenly
The horses broke from the stable
Nobody can break out--this prison is high security
Three inmates broke jail -
start abruptly
After 1989, peace broke out in the former East Bloc - take from stowage in preparation for use
How To Use break out In A Sentence
- As a swarm of new dot-com brands try to buy their way to brand recognition, clutter makes it difficult to break out, and it's easy to fritter away advertising dollars.
- He would break out in a sweat and become so light-headed he would practically faint.
- The electropop band McIntosh fronts -- The Good Natured -- are the latest to break out of England. Jon Chattman: Two On the Rise: Middle Class Rut and The Good Natured
- There's a sense of foreboding in the capital, as if fighting might at any minute break out.
- If a passenger must smoke on the road, stop at a rest stop for a smoke break outside the car.
- To this day I'd rather walk around in a tatty shirt than break out the needle and thread to fix it myself.
- They seem to be trying to outact each other, and sometimes they act so hard that they break out in sweat.
- We had been forewarned of the risk of fire/that fire could break out.
- To tile around pipes and wall mounted faucets, use a pencil to mark the tile where it needs to be cut and break out the marked piece with tile nippers.
- While you're at it, open a vintage claret to wash it all down and break out the chocolate-covered ants for afters.
