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To escape, especially forcefully or defiantly.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
Examples
- They broke out of prison in the middle of the night.
- The brigade succeeded in breaking out of the pocket and reunited with friendly forces.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: bust out
Antonyms: none provided
To rescue someone or aid their escape as in sense 1.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Examples
- After Big Tony was sent to prison, his friends got together to break him out.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: bust out
Antonyms: none provided
To bring out from storage, use, or present.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: idiomatic, transitive
Examples
- Break out the bubbly and celebrate.
- Before you immediately break out calculus, consider that there might be a more elegant way to find the answer in this case.
- Picks and shovels had been perfectly adequate for the sporadic digging we’d had to do over the last month, but when faced with 30 cubic yards of earth to move in at once, we decided to break out the heavy equipment.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: bust out
Antonyms: none provided
To separate (something) from a bundle.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Examples
- Break out the cables from the harness once they are inside the frame.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: sunder out
Antonyms: none provided
To take or force out by breaking.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Examples
- to break out a pane of glass
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
To begin suddenly; to emerge in a certain condition.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
Examples
- He broke out in sweat.
- He broke out in song.
- The First World War broke out in 1914.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
To suddenly get pimples or a rash, especially on one's face.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
Examples
- break out in hives
- break out in a rash
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
(Of a record, film, product, or company): to achieve widespread success.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
Qualifier: especially recording industry or movies
Examples
- It wasn't until later that her album broke out and she hit the big time.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
To remove snow from a road or sidewalk.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: New-England, obsolete
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
become raw or open
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- He broke out in hives
- My skin breaks out when I eat strawberries
- Such boils tend to recrudesce
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: erupt, recrudesce
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: trouble, ail, pain
start abruptly
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- After 1989, peace broke out in the former East Bloc
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: erupt
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: begin, start
begin suddenly and sometimes violently
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: begin, start
take from stowage in preparation for use
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: unpack, take out
move away or escape suddenly
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- The horses broke from the stable
- Three inmates broke jail
- Nobody can break out--this prison is high security
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: break, break away
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: escape, get away, break loose
No etymology was provided for this word.
Across languages
Translations
83 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Chinese Mandarin:
逃出
(táochū)
— to escape, especially forcefully or defiantly
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Finnish:
paeta
— to escape, especially forcefully or defiantly
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French:
s'échapper
— to escape, especially forcefully or defiantly
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French:
s’évader
— to escape, especially forcefully or defiantly
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German:
ausbrechen
— to escape, especially forcefully or defiantly
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Italian:
evadere
— to escape, especially forcefully or defiantly
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Japanese:
脱出する
(dasshutsu suru)
— to escape, especially forcefully or defiantly
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Korean:
탈출하다
(talchulhada)
— to escape, especially forcefully or defiantly
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Latin:
ērumpō
— to escape, especially forcefully or defiantly
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Latvian:
izlauzties
— to escape, especially forcefully or defiantly
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Polish:
wydostawać się
— to escape, especially forcefully or defiantly
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Polish:
wydostać się
— to escape, especially forcefully or defiantly
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Romanian:
evada
— to escape, especially forcefully or defiantly
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Russian:
сбега́ть
(sbegátʹ)
— to escape, especially forcefully or defiantly
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Russian:
сбежа́ть
(sbežátʹ)
— to escape, especially forcefully or defiantly
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Russian:
вырыва́ться
(vyryvátʹsja)
— to escape, especially forcefully or defiantly
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Russian:
вы́рваться
(výrvatʹsja)
— to escape, especially forcefully or defiantly
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Russian:
прорыва́ться
(proryvátʹsja)
— to escape, especially forcefully or defiantly
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Russian:
прорва́ться
(prorvátʹsja)
— to escape, especially forcefully or defiantly
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Spanish:
escapar forzadamente
— to escape, especially forcefully or defiantly
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Spanish:
fugarse
— to escape, especially forcefully or defiantly
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Spanish:
escaparse
— to escape, especially forcefully or defiantly
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Spanish:
salirse
— to escape, especially forcefully or defiantly
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Swedish:
bryta sig ut
— to escape, especially forcefully or defiantly
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Swedish:
rymma
— to escape, especially forcefully or defiantly
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Thai:
แหก
(hɛ̀ɛk)
— to escape, especially forcefully or defiantly
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Ukrainian:
втікти́
(vtiktý)
— to escape, especially forcefully or defiantly
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Welsh:
taro allan
— to escape, especially forcefully or defiantly
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Finnish:
ottaa esiin
— to bring out, use, or present
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French:
montrer
— to bring out, use, or present
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German:
hervorholen
— to bring out, use, or present
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Polish:
wyjmować
— to bring out, use, or present
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Polish:
wyjąć
— to bring out, use, or present
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Romanian:
scoate
— to bring out, use, or present
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Russian:
достать
(dostatʹ)
— to bring out, use, or present
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Finnish:
hajottaa
— to separate from a bundle
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Finnish:
purkaa
— to separate from a bundle
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French:
isoler
— to separate from a bundle
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German:
herauslösen
— to separate from a bundle
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German:
absondern
— to separate from a bundle
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Polish:
wydzielać
— to separate from a bundle
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Polish:
wydzielić
— to separate from a bundle
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Polish:
wyjmować
— to separate from a bundle
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Polish:
wyjąć
— to separate from a bundle
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Finnish:
särkeä
— to take or force out by breaking
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French:
briser
— to take or force out by breaking
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German:
herausbrechen
— to take or force out by breaking
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Polish:
wybijać
— to take or force out by breaking
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Polish:
wybić
— to take or force out by breaking
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Polish:
wyłamywać
— to take or force out by breaking
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Polish:
wyłamać
— to take or force out by breaking
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Russian:
выла́мывать
(vylámyvatʹ)
— to take or force out by breaking
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Russian:
вы́ломать
(výlomatʹ)
— to take or force out by breaking
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Russian:
выбива́ть
(vybivátʹ)
— to take or force out by breaking
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Russian:
вы́бить
(výbitʹ)
— to take or force out by breaking
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Arabic:
اِنْدَلَعَ
(indalaʕa)
— to begin suddenly; to emerge in a certain condition
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Azerbaijani:
qopmaq
— to begin suddenly; to emerge in a certain condition
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Catalan:
esclatar
— to begin suddenly; to emerge in a certain condition
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Chinese Mandarin:
爆發 /爆发
(bàofā)
— to begin suddenly; to emerge in a certain condition
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Chinese Mandarin:
勃發 /勃发
(bófā)
— to begin suddenly; to emerge in a certain condition
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Finnish:
puhjeta
— to begin suddenly; to emerge in a certain condition
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Finnish:
syttyä
— to begin suddenly; to emerge in a certain condition
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French:
survenir
— to begin suddenly; to emerge in a certain condition
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German:
ausbrechen
— to begin suddenly; to emerge in a certain condition
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Japanese:
勃発する
(boppatsu suru)
— to begin suddenly; to emerge in a certain condition
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Korean:
발발하다
(balbalhada)
— to begin suddenly; to emerge in a certain condition
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Polish:
wybuchać
— to begin suddenly; to emerge in a certain condition
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Polish:
wybuchnąć
— to begin suddenly; to emerge in a certain condition
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Romanian:
izbucni
— to begin suddenly; to emerge in a certain condition
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Russian:
разгора́ться
(razgorátʹsja)
— to begin suddenly; to emerge in a certain condition
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Russian:
разгоре́ться
(razgorétʹsja)
— to begin suddenly; to emerge in a certain condition
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Russian:
разража́ться
(razražátʹsja)
— to begin suddenly; to emerge in a certain condition
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Russian:
разрази́ться
(razrazítʹsja)
— to begin suddenly; to emerge in a certain condition
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Russian:
вспы́хивать
(vspýxivatʹ)
— to begin suddenly; to emerge in a certain condition
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Russian:
вспы́хнуть
(vspýxnutʹ)
— to begin suddenly; to emerge in a certain condition
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Spanish:
estallar
— to begin suddenly; to emerge in a certain condition
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Spanish:
irrumpir
— to begin suddenly; to emerge in a certain condition
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Spanish:
desencadenarse
— to begin suddenly; to emerge in a certain condition
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Spanish:
desatarse
— to begin suddenly; to emerge in a certain condition
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Spanish:
prorrumpir
— to begin suddenly; to emerge in a certain condition
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Swedish:
utbryta
— to begin suddenly; to emerge in a certain condition
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Ukrainian:
спала́хувати
(spaláxuvaty)
— to begin suddenly; to emerge in a certain condition
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Welsh:
taro allan
— to begin suddenly; to emerge in a certain condition
