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broken out (of)

verb

past participle of break out (of)
as in escaped
to get free from a dangerous or confining situation at last she decided to break out of her suffocating marriage

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for broken out (of)
  1. escaped
  2. fled
Verb
  • Tommy Nance escaped a jam in the eighth, and Travis Adams retired the side in order in the ninth for his third save.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 19 Sep. 2026
  • Tommy Nance escaped a jam in the eighth and Travis Adams retired the side in order in the ninth for his third save.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 19 Sep. 2026
Definition of escaped
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  • The correspondence helped convince Anders, who fled the Nazis for American exile in 1936, that different kinds of evil cause different kinds of harm.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 18 Sep. 2026
  • Russia is holding parliamentary elections, the first since its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, in a political landscape in which critical opposition is effectively nonexistent, with opponents barred or having fled the country.
    — Zahra Ullah, CNN Money, 18 Sep. 2026
Definition of fled
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“Broken out (of).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/broken%20out%20%28of%29. Accessed 26 Sep. 2026.

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