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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

v
1: start abruptly; "After 1989, peace broke out in the former East Bloc" [syn: erupt, break out]
2: begin suddenly and sometimes violently; "He broke out shouting"
3: move away or escape suddenly; "The horses broke from the stable"; "Three inmates broke jail"; "Nobody can break out-- this prison is high security" [syn: break, break out, break away]
4: take from stowage in preparation for use
5: become raw or open; "He broke out in hives"; "My skin breaks out when I eat strawberries"; "Such boils tend to recrudesce" [syn: erupt, recrudesce, break out]

Merriam Webster's

verb Date: before 12th century intransitive verb 1. to develop or emerge with suddenness or force <fire broke out> <a riot broke out> 2. a. to become covered <break out in a sweat> b. to become affected with a skin eruption 3. to make a break from a restraining condition or situation <broke out of a slump> <broke out of jail> transitive verb 1. a. to make ready for action or use <break out the tents and make camp> b. to produce for consumption <break out a bottle of champagne> 2. to display flying and unfurled 3. to separate from a mass of data <break out newsstand sales>

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

1. If something such as war, fighting, or disease breaks out, it begins suddenly. He was 29 when war broke out... I was in a nightclub in Brixton and a fight broke out. PHRASAL VERB: V P, V P 2. If a prisoner breaks out of a prison, they escape from it. The two men broke out of their cells and cut through a perimeter fence. PHRASAL VERB: V P of n, also V P see also breakout 3. If you break out of a dull situation or routine, you manage to change it or escape from it. It's taken a long time to break out of my own conventional training... If her marriage becomes too restrictive, she will break out and seek new horizons. PHRASAL VERB: V P of n, V P 4. If you break out in a rash or a sweat, a rash or sweat appears on your skin. A person who is allergic to cashews may break out in a rash when he consumes these nuts... A line of sweat broke out on her forehead and she thought she might faint. PHRASAL VERB: V P in n, V P

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

Issue, break forth, burst out.

Moby Thesaurus

OD, arise, be born, be brought down, be felled, be struck down, be traumatized, become, belch, blow open, blow out, break loose, break through, burst forth, burst out, catch, catch cold, clear, collapse, come down with, come forth, come out, come to be, contract, crop up, cut loose, debouch, discharge, disembarrass, disembroil, disengage, disentangle, disgorge, disinvolve, dislodge, eject, emerge, eruct, erupt, exit, explode, extricate, fever, find vent, free, get, get out, get to be, go into shock, have origin, hurl forth, irrupt, issue, issue forth, leak out, ooze out, originate, overdose, release, rise, run a temperature, run out, sicken, spew, spout, spring up, take, take birth, take ill, take rise, tear loose, unknot, unravel, unsnarl, untangle, vomit