outbreak

out·break  (outbrk)

n.

1. A sudden increase: an outbreak of influenza.

2. A sudden eruption; an outburst: "an outbreak of strikes, violent agitation, and arrests" Samuel Chew.

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outbreak

Noun

a sudden occurrence of disease or war

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

outbreak - a sudden violent spontaneous occurrence (usually of some undesirable condition); "the outbreak of hostilities" irruption, eruption happening, natural event, occurrence, occurrent - an event that happens 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; "a recrudescence of racism"; "a recrudescence of the symptoms"

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outbreak

noun 1. eruption, burst, explosion, epidemic, rash, outburst, flare-up, flash, spasm, upsurge

noun 2. onset, beginning, outset, opening, dawn, commencement

Translations

outbreak [ˈautbreɪk] n [of war] → comienzo; [of disease] → epidemia; [of violence etc] → ola

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outbreak [ˈautbreɪk] out n [of violence] → éruption f, explosion f [of disease]; de nombreux cas;

the outbreak of war south of the border → la guerre qui s'est déclarée au sud de la frontière

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outbreak [ˈautbreɪk] n [of war, disease etc] → Ausbruch m

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outbreak [ˈautbreɪk] n → scoppio; epidemia