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Synonyms for outbreak
ˈaʊtˌbreɪkout·break

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Wiktionary0.0 / 0 votes

  1. outbreaknoun

    Synonyms:
    tumult, outburst

  2. outbreaknoun

    To burst out

    Any epidemic outbreak causes understandable panic

    Synonyms:
    tumult, outburst

  3. outbreaknoun

    A sudden increase.

    There has been an outbreak of vandalism at the school.

    Synonyms:
    tumult, outburst

  4. outbreaknoun

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

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

    Synonyms:
    tumult, outburst

  5. outbreaknoun

    An uproar, riot

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

    Synonyms:
    tumult, outburst

  6. outbreaknoun

    A geological layer that breaks out

    Synonyms:
    tumult, outburst

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms0.0 / 0 votes

  1. outbreak

    Synonyms:
    outburst, tumult, commotion, insurrection, rebellion, ebullition

    Antonyms:
    subsidence, pacification, quelling, quiet, order, cooling

Princeton's WordNet0.0 / 0 votes

  1. outbreak, eruption, irruptionnoun

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

    "the outbreak of hostilities"

    Synonyms:
    volcanic eruption, bam, clap, extravasation, bang, blast, eructation, eruption, irruption

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Editors Contribution5.0 / 1 vote

  1. boomtime

    outbreak of something good

    the business has had an out break in stocks

    Submitted by acronimous on September 7, 2017  

Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  1. outbreaknoun

    Synonyms:
    eruption, explosion

  2. outbreaknoun

    Synonyms:
    riot, row, fray, affray, broil, conflict, breach of the peace

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words0.0 / 0 votes

  1. outbreaknoun

    Synonyms:
    eruption, outburst, uprising

Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MD0.0 / 0 votes

  1. outbreak

    Synonyms:
    An epidemic

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How to use outbreak in a sentence?

  1. Charles Gaudry:

    The rains are exacerbating an already-precarious hygiene situation, while immediate measures are now being put in place to address the cholera outbreak, it is crucial also that proper investment is made on a longer term basis to improve living conditions for refugees and prevent future epidemics.

  2. Robert Watts:

    Touring remains the big earner for many of the stadium-filling acts on our musicians' list, but the Covid outbreak has wrecked concert plans and so we expect the wealth of many of these musicians will flatline over the coming year.

  3. Peter Salama:

    This outbreak has features of both, we're really just at the beginning.

  4. Jose Romero:

    If you dont have enough people, enough children immunized in a community, you can start up with an outbreak like we see in other states in the past, if we start to lose that buffer zone that we have with lots of children immunized, were going to start to see diseases that in my career have been eradicated.

  5. Jeremy Farrar:

    As we saw with the new confirmed case just last week, the Ebola epidemic is likely to have a long tail and it's possible that several more isolated cases will emerge in the coming weeks and months, this vaccine...could still play an important role in containing any additional flare ups of this outbreak, as well as being available to help prevent future epidemics.


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