outbreak
IPA: ˈaʊtbreɪk
noun
- An eruption; the sudden appearance of a rash, disease, etc.
- A sudden increase.
- (figurative) An outburst or sudden eruption, especially of violence and mischief.
- Synonym of breakout (“escape from prison”)
verb
- (intransitive) To burst out or break forth.
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Examples of "outbreak" in Sentences
- It was the worst tornado of the outbreak.
- The effects of the outbreak were damaging.
- This led to the outbreak of youth activism.
- Eighty percent of the fish in the outbreak died.
- It was destroyed during the iconoclastic outbreak.
- The division was embodied upon the outbreak of war.
- This method is preclusive in outbreaking of the war.
- He was the only survivor of the outbreak of disease.
- He was an insurance broker at the outbreak of the war.
- Schelling to what he called his outbreak into reality.
- However, the passing of the storm worsened the outbreak.
- The outbreak is Haiti's worst medical emergency since the devastating January 12 earthquake.
- The first sign of the outbreak is adding superfluous letters to existing words like untill.
- The type of E. coli that caused this outbreak is one of the leading causes of food contamination.
- Editor's note: The World Health Organization has increased its alert level to 5 which suggests that the Swine Flu outbreak is very serious.
- The outbreak is centered in the farming region of Artibonite, where experts fear an infection in the Artibonite River has enabled the illness to spread quickly.
- This isn't the apocalypse, though, it's comedy, and the outbreak is averted by cool temps and a massive roofie from the authorities (who show up six hours later on the dot).
- Last week, while Treasury continued to deny that the ever-escalating foreclosure fraud outbreak is a serious problem, investors started placing bets that Bank of America's stock will sink below $3.00 a share.
- Coupled with recent outbreaks of measles and mumps and ongoing challenges to control pertussis, this outbreak is concerning because it suggests that in some areas, where not enough people are being immunized, the diseases are threatening a comeback.
- "This outbreak is likely to get much larger given our experience with cholera epidemics in the past, particularly in a population that really has no protective immunity," Jon Andrus, deputy director of the Pan American Health Organization, the regional office of the World Health Organization, said Friday.
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