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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
outbreak
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an outbreak of a disease (=when a disease appears in a number of people or animals)
▪ There has been an outbreak of the disease in Wales.
an outbreak of unrest
▪ Troops usually respond to outbreaks of unrest with force.
an outbreak of violence
▪ There was a fresh outbreak of violence on March 24.
outbreaks of rain (=short periods of rain – used in weather forecasts)
▪ Outbreaks of rain will spread across northern parts.
the outbreak of war (=the time when a war starts)
▪ A week after the outbreak of war, he enlisted in the army.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
further
▪ Chemicals in the paint render the rust inert and help to discourage further outbreaks.
▪ Henry held Richard responsible for this further outbreak, which was in flagrant defiance of his recent ban.
▪ She also said that the Department would re-investigate the situation if evidence arose of a further outbreak of the gizzard worm infection.
▪ For the next 150 years there were further outbreaks every decade or so.
ill
▪ Voice over It's now believed the worst of the outbreak is over and some birds are getting over the disease.
▪ It is the worst outbreak ever recorded in the country, and possibly the world.
large
▪ Now there are three large areas where outbreaks are intensifying and spreading.
▪ Nevertheless, the potential for a large urban yellow-fever outbreak in Santa Cruz remains beyond doubt.
▪ Isolation of affected cases must be very rigorously followed, or you will end up with a large outbreak on your hands.
▪ It only needs one horse to come to a stud or livery yard premises incubating the disease to start a large outbreak.
late
▪ The latest outbreak of violence in London, he claimed, was only a foretaste of what might happen.
▪ The consequences have been made evident by the course of the latest outbreak of foot and mouth.
▪ The measures to contain this latest outbreak are drastic and require a reversal of our attitudes towards the countryside.
new
▪ Like new outbreaks of flame in a forest fire, fresh worries flared in his mind.
▪ What lay behind this new outbreak?
▪ A new outbreak of smallpox occurred early in 1928.
▪ Most cases are in the tropics, with a new outbreak in the states of the former Soviet Union.
▪ Two sizeable works had gone in under two hours, although it was forty-eight hours before new outbreaks ceased.
▪ Many are forced to move several times to escape new outbreaks of violence.
▪ But a complete withdrawal could trigger a new outbreak of fighting.
▪ Loyalist paramilitaries yesterday threatened a new outbreak of bloodshed in republican areas of Northern Ireland.
recent
▪ The most recent outbreak is particularly alarming because of the number of cases.
▪ The recent outbreak may have been associated with weather conditions, especially a protracted drought followed by occasional heavy rains.
▪ The relatively recent outbreak of street violence and protests largely reflect the frustration of young people unable to find jobs.
serious
▪ A fairly serious outbreak occurred in 1928 at the workhouse.
▪ Beware of some proprietary brands - most are for preventative use and will have little effect against serious outbreaks of parasites.
▪ In December 1980, there was a serious outbreak of rioting by religious fanatics in the northern city of Kano.
■ NOUN
mouth
▪ The office for national statistics blamed the drop on the foot and mouth outbreak.
■ VERB
control
▪ Ministry of Agriculture officials held an emergency meeting in London to decide how to control the outbreak.
▪ The only effective means of controlling outbreaks of this disease are mass vaccination campaigns.
fight
▪ But a complete withdrawal could trigger a new outbreak of fighting.
▪ Attempts by the anti-gamblers to block access to the casinos had led to the outbreak of fighting with the Warriors.
▪ Such an act of statesmanship appears the only way to avoid an outbreak of fighting between the two giants of the Commonwealth.
lead
▪ They are responsible for promoting the industrialisation of agriculture which has led to the current outbreak.
▪ Attempts by the anti-gamblers to block access to the casinos had led to the outbreak of fighting with the Warriors.
occur
▪ This has eliminated the fly problem, and is the strategy that would be used immediately if a fly outbreak occurred again.
▪ Each of the three also has plans in place for notifying the public should an outbreak occur.
▪ A new outbreak of smallpox occurred early in 1928.
▪ His was the first strawberry-related death reported since the outbreak occurred.
▪ Yet no Aids outbreaks occurred in such places-places in which causes of death were well recorded.
▪ He said the scientists saved the Yanomami from an outbreak that had occurred just before they arrived.
▪ Owing to the difficult political and economic situation faced by ex-USSR nations, such outbreaks may occur again.
prevent
▪ Before the arrival of the deadline, police searched the camp for weapons to prevent outbreaks of violence.
▪ Lack of surveillance and limited availability of appropriate diagnostic tests interfere with public health efforts to prevent and control outbreaks.
▪ On the following day there were further protests but a heavy police presence prevented renewed outbreaks of serious fighting.
▪ Idealism was deeply discredited by the failure to prevent the outbreak of the Second World War.
report
▪ All beekeepers have been urged to inspect their hives and report suspected outbreaks.
▪ His was the first strawberry-related death reported since the outbreak occurred.
▪ Vets have been authorised to slaughter on suspicion, to speed up the killing once farmers have reported a possible outbreak.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Doctors are very concerned about an outbreak of tuberculosis in an East London School.
▪ The system started to operate in late 1914, a few months after the outbreak of war in Europe.
▪ There's been an outbreak of food poisoning at the hotel.
▪ Thousands of people died as the result of this latest cholera outbreak.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ By 1946 the worst epidemic of poliomyelitis since the 1916 outbreak gripped the United States.
▪ Henry held Richard responsible for this further outbreak, which was in flagrant defiance of his recent ban.
▪ In fact, Washington gave the military in Hawaii plenty of warning about the imminent outbreak of hostilities.
▪ In the last great outbreak in 1911, 32,000 infants died of diarrhoea and the infant mortality rate climbed to 130.
▪ In the years after the first outbreak in the United States, polio was given little attention.
▪ The relatively recent outbreak of street violence and protests largely reflect the frustration of young people unable to find jobs.
▪ Then there was a spread of relief, an outbreak of joy, a contagion of exuberance.
▪ This preparatory work was practically complete at the outbreak of war and authority was given a few days before for completion.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
outbreak

outbreak \out"break`\, n.

  1. A bursting forth; eruption; insurrection; mutiny; revolt. ``Mobs and outbreaks.''
    --J. H. Newman.

    The flash and outbreak of a fiery mind.
    --Shak.

  2. A sudden beginning of a violent event; as, the outbreak of hostilities between ethnic groups.

  3. A sudden occurrence or manifestation; -- usually of disease or emotion, in one person or a group; as, an outbreak of measles among the students; he had an outbreak of shingles; an outbreak of nervousness in the mob.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
outbreak

"eruption" (of disease, hostilities, etc.), c.1600, from out + break (v.). Outbreak was a verb in Middle English (c.1300).

Wiktionary
outbreak

n. 1 An eruption, sudden appearance 2 A sudden increase. 3 An outburst or sudden eruption, especially of violence and mischief. 4 (context uncountable English) A geological layer that breaks out vb. 1 (context intransitive English) To burst out 2 (context intransitive English) To break forth

WordNet
outbreak

n. a sudden violent spontaneous occurrence (usually of some undesirable condition); "the outbreak of hostilities" [syn: eruption, irruption]

Wikipedia
Outbreak

In epidemiology, an outbreak is a sudden increase in occurrences of a disease in a particular time and place. It may affect a small and localized group or impact upon thousands of people across an entire continent. Two linked cases of a rare infectious disease may be sufficient to constitute an outbreak. Outbreaks include epidemics, which term is normally only used for infectious diseases, as well as diseases with an environmental origin, such as a water or foodborne disease. They may affect a region in a country or a group of countries. Pandemics are near-global disease outbreaks.

Outbreak (film)

Outbreak is a 1995 American medical disaster film directed by Wolfgang Petersen and loosely based on Richard Preston's nonfiction book, The Hot Zone. It stars Dustin Hoffman, Rene Russo and Morgan Freeman, and co-stars Cuba Gooding Jr., Kevin Spacey, Donald Sutherland and Patrick Dempsey.

The film focuses on an outbreak of a fictional Ebola-like virus, Motaba, in Zaire and later in a small town in the United States. It is primarily set in the United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the fictional town of Cedar Creek, California. Outbreak plot speculates how far military and civilian agencies might go to contain the spread of a deadly, contagious disease.

The film, released on March 10, 1995, was a box-office success and Spacey won two awards for his performance. A real-life outbreak of the Ebola virus was occurring in Zaire when the film was released.

Outbreak (novel)

Outbreak is a medical thriller written by Dr. Robin Cook and published in 1987 which deals with an outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus in the United States.

Despite its name and very similar storyline, the book is not connected to the 1995 movie also called Outbreak. The book was made into a television movie in 1995 and released under the title Robin Cook's Virus, later renamed Formula for Death, starring Nicollette Sheridan and William Devane.

Outbreak (disambiguation)

Outbreak may refer to:

  • Outbreaks in epidemiology: an abnormal cluster of people infected with a disease.
  • Outbreak in meteorology may refer to a tornado outbreak or to the sudden intense onset of other phenomena such as a cold air outbreak
  • Outbreak in biology refers to a population explosion.
  • Outbreak (film), a 1995 American disaster film
  • Outbreak (Under the Dome), an episode of the television series Under the Dome
  • Outbreak, is an American hardcore punk band.
  • Outbreak (novel), a novel by Robin Cook.
  • Kaisen: Outbreak, a 2014 professional wrestling event.
  • Resident Evil Outbreak, a video game by Capcom.
    • Resident Evil Outbreak File #2, the sequel of the above game.
Outbreak (band)

Outbreak is an American hardcore punk band from Maine. The group was founded in 2002 and has released two full-length albums, Failure on Bridge 9 and Outbreak on Think Fast! Records. The band has also released several other EP's, splits, and singles, notably appearing on the Saw VI: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack in 2009, along with Hatebreed, Type O Negative, Suicide Silence, Every Time I Die, and others.

Outbreak (Under the Dome)

"Outbreak" is the fourth episode of the CBS drama Under the Dome. The episode originally aired on July 15, 2013.

Outbreak (album)

Outbreak is the second studio album by Maine hardcore punk band Outbreak. It was released in 2008 on Think Fast! Records.

Usage examples of "outbreak".

If a social theory is a strong factor inducing acts of political violence, how are we to account for the recent violent outbreaks in India, where Anarchism has hardly been born.

Friday By Friday, it seemed as if the anthrax outbreak had been contained.

This recent outbreak makes it abundantly clear that anthrax can be used as a bioterrorist weapon against civilian populations.

He believed in the murrain, and he feared that without his supervision the outbreak would spread.

The rabid determination of partizan politicians not to allow the United States to enter into any agreement with the rest of the world to stop war, the outbreaks of violence among the criminal classes, the determined efforts of the liquor interests to nullify the constitutional Prohibition amendment, the depression in business, the increase of unemployment, the strenuous effort of the agitators to make trouble between this country and Great Britain on one side and Japan on the other, all may be grouped with this pathetic spectacle of respectable women turned shoplifters as an indication of that other moral slump from idealism.

There was some indication that an outbreak of canine parvovirus, a disease carried by domestic dogs, was a factor in the decline, but inbreeding was the guess most favored at the moment.

I had overcome my initial perplexion at the sight of the Canitaurs, and I endeavored to put a strong check over my emotions in order to prevent another outbreak of panic and to remain cool and candid, come what would.

By then I had overcome my initial perplexion at the sight of the Canitaurs, and I endeavored to put a strong check over my emotions in order to prevent another outbreak of panic and to remain cool and candid, come what would.

Hamirat Surrah in the Rugham or Secondary formation, and the granitic mass Hamirat el-Nabwah, where the plutonic outbreaks begin.

Era of European Predominance came a turning-point in human affairs, that outbreak of books and discussion in the fifteenth century, a period of great animation and confusion when the destructive criticism of faiths and loyalties got loose.

Vertebrate hosts serve as reservoirs which periodically reinoculate the nanobe into the external environment, increasing the chance of self-sustaining outbreaks.

Spacedock outbreak, just as they have always demanded telepathic scans for capital crimes.

There was some skirmishing, small outbreaks of musket fire, the feeling out of two great armies close together.

The media had eased off a little since the beginning of the staph outbreak.

To those who remembered how widespread was our conviction of the half-heartedness of the Free Staters at the outbreak of the war, it was indeed a revelation to see them after two years still making a stand against the forces which had crushed them.