Meaning

1 senses

  1. To escape; to free oneself.

More definitions
  • be unleashed; emerge with violence or noise
  • run away from confinement

Examples

5 sentences

  1. All hell starts to break loose.

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  2. Clean your room, or else all hell will break loose!

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  3. All hell has broken loose.

    deDer Teufel ist los.

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  4. All hell is breaking loose!

    deDa ist der Teufel los!

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  5. Now, we know that paid snipers fired on Maidan into the crowd in order to let all hell break loose.

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Translations

1 languages

Origin

From Middle English breken los, breken lous, breken lowse, equivalent to break + loose.

From Middle English breken los, breken lous, breken lowse, equivalent to break + loose.

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Forms

breaks loose, breaking loose, broke loose, broken loose
Base formbreak loose · to break loose
3rd person singularbreaks loose
Present participlebreaking loose
Past simplebroke loose
Past participlebroken loose

irregular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theybreak loose
he, she, itbreaks loose

Past simpleLesson

all personsbroke loose

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave broken loose
he, she, ithas broken loose

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill break loose

Synonyms

4 synonyms
Close in meaning

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
breadthbreadwinnerC2breakA1breakableB2breakagebreakdownB2
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