breaking out
Erupting from confinement
Breaking out is escaping confinement or restraint: Three prisoners broke out last night.
It also means erupting suddenly—acne breaks out on skin, violence breaks out in cities, a person breaks out in hives or a cold sweat.
To break out something is to produce it for use: Let's break out the champagne.
Breaking out can mean separating data into categories: breaking out the sales figures by region.
- escapingDeparting confinement hastily
- burstingBreaking from internal pressure
- acneInflamed skin condition
- eruptionViolent sudden release
- jailbreakEscape from custody
liberation · explosion · flee · emerging · catharsis · stardom · outbreak · rash · solo · debut · pustule · confession · run away · fight or flight · fever · cold sweat · spreading · fire
- happeningshappenings, happening, event, occurrence, events
- prison escapesjailbreak, escapee, tunneling, disguise, rope ladder
- breakingcracking, fracturing, rupturing, shattering, snapping
- market statesopen, closed, halted, suspended, active
breaking outbreaking in
Forced entry or conditioning
staying put · entering · going in · settling in · breaking into
breaking outdying down
Decreasing in force
subsiding · clearing up · ending · fading · abating
breaking outblending in
Avoiding notice by conforming
fitting in · conforming · falling back · falling in line · following the crowd
break, breaking, unbroken, breaker, breakout, breakage, broke out, brokenness, breakouts