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break_out
has definitions from the field of medicine
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[ verb ] start abruptly
Synonyms Examples "After 1989, peace broke out in the former East Bloc" Used in print (Booton Herndon, "From Custer to Korea, The 7th Cavalry"...)Just a month after the Korean_War broke_out , the 7_th_Cavalry was moving_into the lines , ready for combat . (Charles Wharton Stork, "Verner von Heidenstam"...)In `` The_King 's_Ride '' , Charles breaks_out of a long period of petulance and inertia , regains his old self , escapes from Turkey , and finally reaches his own land after an absence of eighteen years . Related terms |
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[ verb ] begin suddenly and sometimes violently
Examples "He broke out shouting" Related terms |
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[ verb ] move away or escape suddenly
Synonyms Examples "The horses broke from the stable" "Three inmates broke jail" "Nobody can break out--this prison is high security" Used in print (Charles Glicksberg, "Sex in Contemporary Literature"...)Monogamy is the vice from which the abjectly fearful middle_class continue to suffer , whereas the beatnik has the courage to break_out of_that prison of respectability . (Todhunter Ballard, The Night Riders....)He broke_out of Folsom last night . |
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[ verb ] take from stowage in preparation for usage
Used in print (Peter Wyden, "The Chances of Accidental War"...)I asked Wisman what would happen if he broke_out the go codes and tried to start transmitting one . Related terms |
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[ verb ] (medicine) become raw or open; as of skin eruptions
Synonyms Examples "He broke out in hives" "My skin breaks out when I eat strawberries" "Such boils tend to recrudesce" Used in print (Dell Shannon, The Ace of Spades....)The sweat broke_out on Mr._Skyros ' forehead as he realized he had been actually thinking - hoping - planning - perhaps - Related terms |
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