BREAKS OUT (OF) Synonyms: 56 Similar and Opposite Words

breaks out (of)

verb

present tense third-person singular of break out (of)

as in escapes

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

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Out-of-control AI escapes human oversight, commandeers vital infrastructure and kills millions of people or even all of humanity.

— Max Zahn, ABC News, 16 Sep. 2026
Only a failure that escapes every layer should reach a human.

— Shivansh Inamdar, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2026

Definition of escapes

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Cora, the granddaughter of a woman kidnapped from West Africa and sold into slavery, flees her captor’s plantation, plunging her into the book’s alternate steampunk reality where she is pursued by the merciless slave catcher Ridgeway.

— David Faris, TheWeek, 16 Sep. 2026
As the dust settles, John flees, but Zoe comes with a gun to finish off Hal in the rubble.

— Joe Otterson, Variety, 14 Sep. 2026

Definition of flees

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Such tasks usually require a data center, but the stack of Macs runs off one wall outlet.

— Stephen Nellis, USA Today, 22 Sep. 2026
Warmer storms hold more moisture, and push the snow line up the mountains, so precipitation that should be saved as snowpack runs off as rain.

— Sean Macaday, Sacbee.com, 20 Sep. 2026

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