单词 | to break out |
释义 | > as lemmasto break out to break out 1. transitive. [ < sense 33.] To force out by breaking. ΘΚΠ the world > space > place > removal or displacement > extraction > extract [verb (transitive)] > strike or knock out > violently lashc1330 pash1530 to break out1611 1611 Bible (King James) Psalms lviii. 6 Breake out the great teeth of the young lyons. View more context for this quotation 1888 N.E.D. at Break Mod. To break the glass out of a window, the teeth out of a rake, etc. 2. intransitive. [ < sense 37.] To burst or spring out from restraint, confinement, or concealment. Said of persons and things material, also of fire, light, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > go or come out [verb (intransitive)] > from concealment, confinement, or obscurity to break outOE to come forthOE to start outa1382 unnesta1413 to break covert (also cover)1602 untapis1602 unkennel1695 emerge1700 unburrow1744 tibble1840 tib1853 the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > go or come out [verb (intransitive)] > violently to break outOE shonk1488 belch1581 burst1590 fulminate1630 vomit1632 bust1837 OE Beowulf 2546 Geseah ða..stanbogan, stream ut þonan brecan of beorge. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 15401 Þat he [the pick] brac ut bi-foren under his breosten. c1340 R. Rolle Pricke of Conscience 4465 Bot at þe last þai sal breke out And destroy many landes obout. a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Isa. xxxv. 6. a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Isa. lviii. 8 Thanne shal breken out as morutid thi liȝt. 1596 W. Lambarde Perambulation of Kent (rev. ed.) 289 Those very welles or springs..whereof the one breaketh out of the groud [sic] about Stallesfield. 1647 Sectary Dissected 17 What an ambush of Banditi is here broken out against the poor Statutes? 1679 W. Longueville in E. M. Thompson Corr. Family of Hatton (1878) I. 183 Sunday last a fire or two broke out in ye citty. 1763 J. Wesley Jrnl. 21 Aug. The sun broke out several times, and shone hot in my face. 1885 Manch. Examiner 6 July 5/1 A fire broke out and spread with great rapidity. 3. Said of a morbid eruption on the skin; also of an epidemic disease. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > eruption > erupt [verb (intransitive)] to break out1535 burst1552 to break up1561 to come out1565 erump1657 the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > types > of a disease: act [verb (intransitive)] > of epidemic disease: break out to break out1651 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Lev. xiii. 12 Whan the leprosy breaketh out in the szkynne. 1651 in T. Fuller Abel Redevivus 429 There brake out a grievous Pestilence in that City. 1661 R. Lovell Πανζωορυκτολογια, sive Panzoologicomineralogia 327 The measells, which are little swellings, red, breaking out in the skinn. 1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 16. ¶2 Those Blotches and Tumours which break out in the Body. 1842 Ld. Tennyson Walking to Mail in Poems (new ed.) II. 50 The same old sore breaks out from age to age. 1851 W. H. Dixon W. Penn xi. 378 The yellow fever broke out in Philadelphia. 4. A person, or his body, is also said to break out (in or into boils, etc.). ΚΠ c1300 Beket 2421 His flesch bigan to breken out: and rotede and foule stonk. 1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Breake oute, or braste oute, as a mannes face doth with heate. 1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan ii. xxix. 167 The bodies of children..breaking out into biles and scabbs. 1690 London Gaz. No. 2596/4 He is a short..Man, his Lips broke out. 1769 O. Goldsmith Rom. Hist. II. 144 His face was all broke out into ulcers. 1819 L. Hunt Indicator 24 Nov. 56 He used to break out in enormous biles and blisters. 5. Said of exclamations, feelings, passions, traits; of discord, riot, war, rebellion, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > manner of action > violent action or operation > be violent [verb (intransitive)] > burst violently from rest or restraint abreakOE outburstOE outbreaka1450 reboil1477 to break forth1535 burst1542 to break out1574 go1583 fulminate1630 break1693 lasha1716 to rage out1720 rip1856 outflame1890 1574 J. Baret Aluearie B 1102 Laughter breaketh out suddainly. 1597 M. Drayton Englands Heroicall Epist. f. 5 v My hart must breake within, or woes breake out. 1649 J. Milton Εικονοκλαστης iv. 29 Besides this, the Rebellion in Ireland was now broke out. a1715 Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Own Time (1724) I. 577 His speech was suppressed for some days: But it broke out at last. 1845 S. Austin tr. L. von Ranke Hist. Reformation in Germany (ed. 2) I. 429 The natural antagonism between them soon broke out. 1847 L. Hunt Men, Women, & Bks. II. xi. 274 Traits of him still break out. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. 163 Formidable riots broke out in many places. 1849 W. Irving Oliver Goldsmith (rev. ed.) xxix. 254 His goodness of heart, which broke out on every occasion. 6. Persons or other agents are also said to break out into or in some manifestation of feeling or some action. (New Zealand examples refer to a drinking bout.) See also E.D.D. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > aspects of emotion > manifestation of emotion > manifest itself [verb (intransitive)] break out into or in1480 to have way?1614 the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > eruption > erupt in spots, etc. [verb (transitive)] break out into or in1480 the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [verb (intransitive)] > go on drinking-bout Bacchanalize1656 to loose (also let loose) a pin1711 binge1854 to break outa1888 to go on the bust1890 toot1890 to go on the shout1892 pub-crawl1937 barhop1954 binge drink1975 1480 W. Caxton Descr. Brit. 19 A metrer breketh out in this maner in praysing of this cite. 1600 W. Shakespeare Much Ado about Nothing i. i. 24 Did he breake out into teares? View more context for this quotation 1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. ix. 83 Thomas Piercy..brake out into open Rebellion against the Queen. 1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 45. ¶6 She broke out into a loud Soliloquy. 1796 R. Southey Joan of Arc viii. 316 The exultant French Break out in loud rejoicing. 1871 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues I. 177 Ctesippus again breaks out, and again has to be pacified by Socrates. a1888 Mod. He's not a confirmed dipsomaniac, but only breaks out now and again. 1898 J. Bell In Shadow of Bush xvii. 101 Davie..had thought it best on the one occasion in which Dan had broken out, to give him a wide berth. 1904 N.Z. Illustr. Mag. 9 429 Bill did ‘break out’. 7. transitive. To open up (a receptacle or the like) and remove its contents; to get (articles) out of a place of storage; hence, to prepare (food or drink) for consumption. colloquial (chiefly U.S.). ΘΚΠ the world > space > place > removal or displacement > extraction > extract [verb (transitive)] unteeOE to take out of ——c1175 forthdraw?a1300 out-takea1350 to take outa1382 excludec1400 dischargec1405 to get outc1432 tryc1440 extraya1450 out-have1458 to take fortha1550 extract1570 reave1640 eliciate1651 roust1658 uncork1740 to put out of ——1779 to break out1840 the world > space > relative position > condition of being open or not closed > open [verb (transitive)] > open to use or a source tap1575 broach1582 tame1642 to break out1840 the world > food and drink > drink > providing or serving drink > [verb (transitive)] birleOE drenchc1000 shenchOE adrenchc1275 to drink to1297 tap1401 skinkc1405 propinec1450 brince?1567 liquor1575 to do right1600 dram1770 butler1826 jerk1868 to set up1880 drink1883 bartend1948 to break out1962 1834 F. Marryat Peter Simple I. v. 51 He was breaking casks out of the hold.] 1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast xiv. 111 There is always a good deal to be done in the hold: goods to be broken out. 1849 N. Kingsley Diary (1914) 22 Broke out our chests to-day, found all our things in good order. 1849 N. Kingsley Diary (1914) 73 They broke out the baggage room to-day to get iron for various purposes. 1877 Fraser's Mag. 15 221 Afterwards the fish are broken out and washed, and then packed in wooden hogshead casks. 1962 ‘K. Orvis’ Damned & Destroyed vi. 47 I went home and broke out a fresh bottle of Scotch. 1968 C. Burke Elephant across Border vi. 236 ‘Break out some more coffee.’ Lori made more coffee. 8. intransitive. Of a goldfield: to come into operation. Also transferred. Australian and New Zealand. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > undertaking > beginning action or activity > begin action or activity [verb (intransitive)] > become active or come into operation to take steadc1175 commencec1380 to take effect1385 to come into force (also to take force)1491 to come into (also in) play1568 inure1589 enure1607 to break out1862 to make with ——1940 bite1976 1862 E. Hodder Mem. N.Z. Life 180 The Mammoth Caverns, which have been discovered since the diggings broke out. 1873 A. Trollope Austral. & N.Z. II. xxiii. 380 When Gold ‘broke out’, as the phrase goes, on the western side of the Middle Island. 1894 C. J. O'Regan Voices of Wave & Tree 14 When the Coast broke out, we roughed it thro' the bush. 1901 M. Franklin My Brilliant Career ii. 11 Ere the diggings had broken out on Bruggabrong, our nearest neighbour..was seventeen miles distant. to break out (in or into boils, etc.) 4. A person, or his body, is also said to break out (in or into boils, etc.). ΚΠ c1300 Beket 2421 His flesch bigan to breken out: and rotede and foule stonk. 1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Breake oute, or braste oute, as a mannes face doth with heate. 1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan ii. xxix. 167 The bodies of children..breaking out into biles and scabbs. 1690 London Gaz. No. 2596/4 He is a short..Man, his Lips broke out. 1769 O. Goldsmith Rom. Hist. II. 144 His face was all broke out into ulcers. 1819 L. Hunt Indicator 24 Nov. 56 He used to break out in enormous biles and blisters. < as lemmas |
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