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burst out

verb as in break

verb as in break out

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Fires burst out, and men jumped into the water as the boat went down.

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She burst out from the forest and ran as far as she could go, to the very edge of the island, where a small cliff dropped down to the rocky coast.

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Our friends burst out from the underbrush, the robot sprinting through the field, the goose flying by her side.

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There’s no lineman bursting out of his uniform looking like the second coming of Aaron Donald.

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In Gaza and in Israel, joy and relief at the step toward peace—however piecemeal and fragile—burst out into the open.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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