outbreak

Definition

  • noun: a sudden start or increase of fighting or disease
  • noun: a sudden or violent increase in activity or currency
  • often + 'of'
  • synonyms: eruption, insurrection, mutiny

Examples

  • They are preparing for an 'outbreak of' the virus.

  • an 'outbreak of' violence/war

  • a cholera 'outbreak'

Movie clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) Covert intel. Original black-baggers, all under Creedy. Alan Percy, Robert Keyes, William Rookwood. The day after the St. Mary's outbreak... ...Percy gives his Beretta a blowjob, Keyes dies in a fire... Rookwood goes missing. Bloody coincidences are making me sick to my stomach. (..)
    2005 V for Vendetta