break out
Verb
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Verb
break out
- (intransitive) To escape, especially forcefully or defiantly.
- They broke out of prison in the middle of the night.
- The brigade succeeded in breaking out of the pocket and reunited with friendly forces.
- (transitive, idiomatic) To bring out, use, or present.
- Break out the bubbly and celebrate.
- (transitive) To separate from a bundle.
- Break out the cables from the harness once they are inside the frame.
- (transitive) To take or force out by breaking.
- to break out a pane of glass
- (intransitive) To begin suddenly; to emerge in a certain condition.
- He broke out in sweat.
- He broke out in song.
- (intransitive) To suddenly get pimples or a rash, especially on one's face.
- (recording industry, intransitive) Of a record: to achieve success.
- 1971, Billboard (volume 83, number 13, page 31)
- The record first happened a few years ago in Florida and had considerable sales. A year later, the record broke out again in Florida and again experienced considerable sales. Both times, it either made the chart or bubbled under.
- 2000, Billboard (volume 112, number 28, page 25)
- Avant will finish a radio tour this summer that includes a stop in Chicago, where the single broke out thanks to support from WGCI programmer Elroy Smith.
- 1971, Billboard (volume 83, number 13, page 31)
- (to separate from) sunder out
- French: échapper, s’évader
- German: ausbrechen
- Russian: сбега́ть
- French: montrer
- French: isoler
- French: briser
- Russian: выла́мывать
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