Outbreak
['aʊtbreɪk] or ['aʊtbrek]
Definition
(noun.) a sudden violent spontaneous occurrence (usually of some undesirable condition); 'the outbreak of hostilities'.
Typist: Susan--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A bursting forth; eruption; insurrection.
Editor: Susanna
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Eruption, explosion.[2]. Riot, row, fray, affray, broil, conflict, breach of the peace.
Typist: Owen
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Outburst, tumult, commotion, insurrection, rebellion, ebullition
ANT:Subsidence, pacification, quelling, quiet, order, cooling
Typist: Rex
Definition
n. a breaking out: eruption: a disturbance of the peace.—v.i. Outbreak′ to burst forth.—ns. Out′breaker a wave which breaks on the shore or on rocks; Out′breaking.
Inputed by Hilary
Examples
- Crossing the hall, about half an hour afterwards, I was brought to a sudden standstill by an outbreak of screams from the small drawing-room. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Don't let him part me from Marian, she cried, with a sudden outbreak of energy. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- This was an outbreak of rage and mischief on quite old-fashioned lines. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- I was a little doubtful how she would meet me, after the outbreak of jealousy of which I had been the cause so short a time since. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Attila's ravages in North Italy were checked by an outbreak of fever in 452. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- An outbreak of the natural political map of the world, which occurred in 1821, ultimately secured the support of England, France, and Russia. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- One conspicuous phase of these German troubles was the Anabaptist outbreak. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- No fresh outbreak of anger against him, no new appeal to me to hasten the day of reckoning escaped her. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- This outbreak frightened Luther very effectually. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Just before the outbreak of the Spanish War in 1898 he felt that such a machine might be of service to his country in the event of hostilities that seemed to him imminent. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- But both were instances of an outbreak of conscience against authority and the ordinary procedure of the church. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- This struggle lasted right up to the outbreak of the Great War. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- At the outbreak of the war in 1861 he was president of one of the Presbyterian synodical colleges in the South, whose buildings passed into the hands of the Government. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Eventually, in the year 1869, the movement rather suddenly collapsed, although there have been sporadic outbreaks of the same sort since that date. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
Typist: Vilma