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out·break
/
ˈaʊtˌbreɪk
/
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[
out
-breyk
]
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noun
1.
a sudden
breaking
out or occurrence; eruption:
the outbreak of war.
2.
a sudden and active manifestation:
an outbreak of
hives
.
3.
an outburst:
an outbreak of temper.
4.
an insurrection, revolt, or mutiny.
5.
a public disturbance; riot.
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Origin:
1595–1605;
out-
+
break
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a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc.
an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance.
an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc.
a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
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outbreak
(ˈaʊtˌbreɪk)
—
n
a sudden, violent, or spontaneous occurrence, esp of disease or strife
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 10th Edition
2009 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins
Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009
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Word Origin & History
outbreak
"eruption" (of disease, hostilities, etc.), c.1600, from
out
+
break
(v.).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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Example sentences
There was a sudden
outbreak
of talk about common ground.
The
outbreak
was blamed on infected tomato plants sold at garden stores.
Weather changes can also increase the number of people exposed to a disease,
increasing the likelihood of an
outbreak
.
When an
outbreak
occurs against a backdrop of social trauma, it can go on for
months or longer.
Better vaccines and antiviral drugs, they argue, would be vital to protect people if an
outbreak
were to occur.
Instead they had a harvest of horrors, with nuts blackened by a fungus that had never before caused an
outbreak
in pistachios.
In my sleep after celebrating the
outbreak
of permanent world peace.
The dramatic hair loss is caused by mange, a condition spurred by an
outbreak
of mites.
Thus, the movement of people escaping the region's conflicts is helping to spread the
outbreak
.
The world is in the midst of the largest
outbreak
of new names in history.
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