break out

break out of

verb

Definition of BREAK OUT

to get free from a dangerous or confining situation <at last she decided to break out of her suffocating marriage>

Synonyms abscond, break out (of), clear out, flee, fly, get out, lam, run away, run off

Related Words avoid, elude, evade, lose, shun; decamp, depart, elope, exit, go, leave, move, pull out, quit, sally (forth), shove (off), take off, walk out; disentangle, extricate; bring off, emancipate, enfranchise, free, liberate, loose, loosen, manumit, redeem, release, rescue, spring, unbind, uncage, unchain, unfetter

Near Antonyms abide, dwell, hang around, linger, remain, stay, stick around, tarry; come back, return