break out

Verb
  1. Start abruptly (synset 200346162)
    "After 1989, peace broke out in the former East Bloc"
    is a type of: begin, start - have a beginning, in a temporal, spatial, or evaluative sense
    same as: erupt
  2. Begin suddenly and sometimes violently (synset 200347612)
    "He broke out shouting"
    is a type of: begin, start - have a beginning, in a temporal, spatial, or evaluative sense
  3. Move away or escape suddenly (synset 202077161)
    "The horses broke from the stable"; "Three inmates broke jail"; "Nobody can break out--this prison is high security"
    is a type of: break loose, escape, get away - run away from confinement
    same as: break, break away
    verb group: break - make a rupture in the ranks of the enemy or one's own by quitting or fleeing
  4. Take from stowage in preparation for use (synset 201488358)
    is a type of: take out, unpack - remove from its packing
  5. Become raw or open (synset 200309856)
    "He broke out in hives"; "My skin breaks out when I eat strawberries"; "Such boils tend to recrudesce"
    is a type of: ail, pain, trouble - cause bodily suffering to and make sick or indisposed
    same as: erupt, recrudesce

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