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Answer for the clue "Like a sudden outburst ", 10 letters:
paroxysmal

Word definitions for paroxysmal in dictionaries

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. Of, pertaining to, causing or accompanied by paroxysms

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Paroxysmal \Par`ox*ys"mal\, a. Of the nature of a paroxysm; characterized or accompanied by paroxysms; as, a paroxysmal pain; paroxysmal temper. -- Par`ox*ys"mal*ly , adv.

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adj. accompanied by or of the nature of paroxysms

Usage examples of paroxysmal.

The discomfort of paroxysmal tachycardia is increased by fear and anxiety and apprehension and nervousness, and I've got all of 'em on account of fools.

Spasms of the bronchial muscles with paroxysmal dry tickling cough and difficulty in lying down.

She moves amongst the seasons and the years with a grand whoopla that seizes the torso with paroxysmal fury, that shakes the cobwebs out of the sky.

The sudden and intense vertigo, a dramatic loss of equilibrium, vomiting, extreme paroxysmal cranial pain and a sudden convulsion that lasted less than five minutes, all resulting in unconsciousness and then death.

And anyhow he was over fifty years old and he had a chronic heart problem called paroxysmal tachycardia.