BREAK OUT OF Synonyms: 56 Similar and Opposite Words

break out (of)

verb

Definition of break out (of)

as in to escape

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

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Smith, too, struggled to escape the clutches of a Burnley defence that saw Hjalmar Ekdal replace the tiring Igor midway through the second half.

— Richard Sutcliffe, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2026
Thieves broke into a museum devoted to the work of Pierre-Auguste Renoir in the South of France early this morning, making off with four paintings by the French Impressionist before dropping two in the garden in their haste to escape.

— News Desk, Artforum, 8 Sep. 2026

Definition of escape

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Lyle’s status has been in limbo since he was arrested in mid-August on a warrant stemming from charges for aggressively fleeing and eluding a law enforcement officer and reckless driving in mid-July.

— Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 7 Sep. 2026
Many Muslim Americans hid or fled; between 2002 and 2003, thirteen thousand faced deportation proceedings.

— Jill Lepore, New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2026

Definition of flee

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Vance did not run away from the issues during his keynote address at the Republican National Committee’s midterm convention in Dallas on Thursday, but chose instead to recognize it.

— Mabinty Quarshie, The Washington Examiner, 11 Sep. 2026
Human remains found nearly a half-century ago in North Carolina were identified as those of a 15-year-old Maryland girl who had run away from home months earlier, state law enforcement officials said Tuesday.

— David K. Li, NBC news, 10 Sep. 2026

Definition of run away

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The five people killed when an Amazon cargo jet ran off the runway at Miami International Airport were all inside a van used to get to planes to clean them, authorities said.

— David Fischer, Chicago Tribune, 8 Sep. 2026
The five people killed when an Amazon cargo jet ran off the runway at Miami International Airport were all inside a van used to shuttle cleaning crews to planes, authorities said.

— David Fischer, Los Angeles Times, 8 Sep. 2026

Definition of run off

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