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