Definitions for outbreak
ˈaʊtˌbreɪkout·break

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. outbreak, eruption, irruptionnoun

   a sudden violent spontaneous occurrence (usually of some undesirable condition)

   "the outbreak of hostilities"

GCIDERate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. outbreaknoun

   A sudden beginning of a violent event; as, the outbreak of hostilities between ethnic groups.

2. outbreaknoun

   A sudden occurrence or manifestation; -- usually of disease or emotion, in one person or a group; as, an outbreak of measles among the students; he had an outbreak of shingles; an outbreak of nervousness in the mob.

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. outbreaknoun

   An eruption, sudden appearance

   Any epidemic outbreak causes understandable panic

2. outbreaknoun

   A sudden increase.

   There has been an outbreak of vandalism at the school.

3. outbreaknoun

   An outburst or sudden eruption, especially of violence and mischief.

   There has been an outbreak of broken windows in the street.

4. outbreaknoun

   An uproar, riot

   Poorly trained officers can't control a prison outburst without excessive repression

5. outbreaknoun

   A geological layer that breaks out

6. outbreakverb

   To burst out

7. outbreakverb

   To break forth

8. Etymology: From *, from utabrecan, equivalent to. Cognate with uitbreken, ausbrechen.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Outbreaknoun

   That which breaks forth; eruption.

   Etymology: out and break.

   Breathe his faults so quaintly,
   That they may seem the taints of liberty,
   The flash and outbreak of a fiery mind. William Shakespeare.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Outbreak

   In epidemiology, an outbreak is a sudden increase in occurrences of a disease in a particular time and place. It may affect a small and localized group or impact upon thousands of people across an entire continent. Four linked cases of a rare infectious disease may be sufficient to constitute an outbreak. Outbreaks include epidemics, which term is normally only used for infectious diseases, as well as diseases with an environmental origin, such as a water or foodborne disease. They may affect a region in a country or a group of countries. Pandemics are near-global disease outbreaks when multiple countries across the world are infected.

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1. Outbreak

   Outbreak is a term used in epidemiology to describe an occurrence of disease greater than would otherwise be expected at a particular time and place. It may affect a small and localized group or impact upon thousands of people across an entire continent. Two linked cases of a rare infectious disease may be sufficient to constitute an outbreak. Outbreaks may also refer to epidemics, which affect a region in a country or a group of countries, or pandemics, which describe global disease outbreaks.

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Outbreak

   owt′brāk, 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.

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British National Corpus

1. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'outbreak' in Nouns Frequency: #2719

Anagrams for outbreak »

1. breakout

2. break out

3. kabouter

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of outbreak in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of outbreak in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of outbreak in a Sentence

1. Brian McCloskey:

   This year for Tokyo, it got to the point where the amount of mitigation that would have been needed was more than we could ask the Japanese government to do when the Japanese government needed to be focusing on looking after its population, but that could well have changed by next year. So, it's quite possible that the outbreak will be at a level where it's manageable without any particular risk.

2. Ezra Sakawa:

   We have little manpower to deal with an outbreak of such magnitude.

3. Tom Frieden:

   My group, Resolve to Save Lives, has suggested a global galvanizing goal we call 7-1-7 : that every single outbreak anywhere in the world is detected within seven days of emergence, reported within one day and control measures implemented within seven days.

4. Tommy Xie:

   The announcement shows China's commitment to implement the phase one trade deal despite the disruptions from the recent virus outbreak.

5. Yang Chaobin:

   Since the outbreak of the virus it's been some time and actually all Huawei's own factories have resumed production, the major suppliers have resumed production as well, so there's no impact at all to the supply to our customers.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=outbreak
2. ^ GCIDE
   https://gcide.gnu.org.ua/?q=outbreak
3. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Outbreak
4. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=outbreak
5. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outbreak
6. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=outbreak
7. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=outbreak