Overview of noun break_out

The noun breakout has 1 sense

• break, breakout, jailbreak, gaolbreak, prisonbreak, prison-breaking -- (an escape from jail; "the breakout was carefully planned")

Overview of verb break_out

The verb break out has 5 senses

• erupt, break out -- (start abruptly; "After 1989, peace broke out in the former East Bloc")


• break out -- (begin suddenly and sometimes violently; "He broke out shouting")


• break, break out, break away -- (move away or escape suddenly; "The horses broke from the stable"; "Three inmates broke jail"; "Nobody can break out--this prison is high security")


• break out -- (take from stowage in preparation for use)


• erupt, recrudesce, break out -- (become raw or open; "He broke out in hives"; "My skin breaks out when I eat strawberries"; "Such boils tend to recrudesce")