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OUTBREAK
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A sudden violent spontaneous occurrence (usually of some undesirable condition)
Example:
the outbreak of hostilities
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("outbreak" is a kind of...):
happening; natural event; occurrence; occurrent (an event that happens)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "outbreak"):
epidemic (a widespread outbreak of an infectious disease; many people are infected at the same time)
recrudescence (a return of something after a period of abatement)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Present simple (first person singular and plural, second person singular and plural, third person plural) of the verb outbreak
Context examples:
The risk for travelers is low, but you should avoid visiting areas where there are disease outbreaks.
(Hemorrhagic Fevers, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
Eventually, in the year 1869, the movement rather suddenly collapsed, although there have been sporadic outbreaks of the same sort since that date.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Lychees are cultivated, harvested and consumed in different parts of Bangladesh but lychee-associated outbreaks have been reported only in Dinajpur and Thakurgaon districts.
(Lychee deaths linked to pesticides, not the fruit, SciDev.Net)
These findings may help inform the development of therapeutic pan-ebolavirus antibodies, as well as vaccines for potential use in the event of another Ebola outbreak.
(Antibodies from Ebola survivor protect mice and ferrets against related viruses, NIH)
An outbreak of the disease upon his plantation, which was distant from medical aid, caused him to study it himself, with some rather far-reaching consequences.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Yet the Abbot Berghersh was a man of too firm a grain to allow one bold outbreak to imperil the settled order of his great household.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Scientists from the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (IOC/FIOCRUZ) have identified eight genetic mutations in the yellow fever virus from the 2017 outbreak.
(Brazil scientists find mutations in yellow fever virus, Agência Brasil)
"Then what are you going to do?" she demanded again, with a tense, quiet utterance that boded an outbreak.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
So I thought at the time; but, ah me, little I knew him or knew that even then, perhaps, he was meditating an outbreak more terrible than any I had seen.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
Everybody in Ruth's family looked up to Judge Blount as a man of power and achievement, and they were horrified at Martin's outbreak.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
