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Eruption of a sort
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outburst
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1650s, from out + burst (v.). Outbresten was a verb in Middle English (mid-12c.), from Old English utaberstan .
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a fit/outburst of anger (= an occasion when someone suddenly becomes angry ) ▪ His occasional outbursts of anger shocked those around him. COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE emotional ▪ One sometimes thinks of Franck ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Outburst \Out"burst`\, n. A bursting forth; as, an outburst of laughter.
Usage examples of outburst.
And a conception of Anarchism, which, on one hand, threatens every vested interest, and, on the other, holds out a vision of a free and noble life to be won by a struggle against existing wrongs, is certain to rouse the fiercest opposition, and bring the whole repressive force of ancient evil into violent contact with the tumultuous outburst of a new hope.
Another outburst in your English abuse and my slave has permission to use bastinado to quiet you.
He thinks he knows that the outburst last fall was caused by New York Communists, beatnik perverts and other godless elements beyond his ken.
He was not sensitive to miscomputations of his years, and felt disinclined to provoke further outbursts of family confidences.
American War Machine was but a gigantic, lumbering erection wedged into the tight pants of Democracy, stifled until the outburst of war prompts congressional rubbing and legislative foreplay and the uncontrollable spurting ejaculation of bombs and missles ensues as the nation COMES on the heads of a nation of Third World villagers.
The men still went on working, wearily ignoring this new outburst because they had been expecting it, as they wearily ignored the other outbursts, and Prew went with them, suddenly suffocating in the wet plaster smell that enveloped him.
Despite the excitability of his nature, which often led to outbursts of hysteria, he had the patience to wait and the shrewdness to realize that the climate of material prosperity and of a feeling of relaxation which settled over Germany in those years was not propitious for his purposes.
The whirl of things and people, the crowd of dancers, Delaney, the gun fight, Hilma Tree, her eyes fixed on him in mute confession, the rabble in the harness room, the news of the regrade, the fierce outburst of wrath, the hasty organising of the League, all went spinning confusedly through his recollection.
By the time Hedwin and his present companions rejoined the group downstairs, the old professor was beaming happily, his feud with Salter forgotten, like his outbursts against Carland and Dorn.
Prepared for such outbursts, Judge Shaheen proffered a box of tissues to her.
Perhaps this outburst of light was an unprogrammed, random spasma last dying gasp of machines that were responding wildly to the warmth of a new sun, and would soon lapse again into quiescence, this time for ever.
Earlier, Talman had shown a sporadic outburst, largely in self-protection.
I repeated, but they still appeared horribly undistressed, perhaps uncomprehending of my outburst.
And, whatso language the Allies now hold, In that outburst, at least, was war declared.
The Shadow, a fresh brace of automatics in his fists, was still concentrating upon the yard, to quell outbursts there.