Crossword clues for outburst
outburst
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Outburst \Out"burst`\, n. A bursting forth; as, an outburst of laughter.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. a sudden, often violent expression of emotion or activity. vb. (context intransitive English) To burst out.
WordNet
n. an unrestrained expression of emotion [syn: effusion, gush, blowup, ebullition]
a sudden violent happening; "an outburst of heavy rain"; "a burst of lightning" [syn: burst, flare-up]
a sudden violent disturbance [syn: tumultuous disturbance]
Wikipedia
Outburst (subtitled The Game of Verbal Explosions!) is a game originally devised in 1986 by Hersch and Company of Los Angeles and later licensed by Parker Brothers, now a division of Hasbro. Since 2004, it has been produced by Mattel.
The game is played with two teams, using cards on each side of which a topic heading is printed, followed by a list of 10 items that fall under the given topic. The object is to guess the items that were chosen for inclusion on the card, given the topic.
One of the two teams, with all of its players free to speak at the same time, attempts to guess as many of the 10 listed items as it can before the timer runs out. The team receives as many points as successful guesses, plus a bonus determined by a roll of dice. The first team to get 60 points wins.
A special viewer is used that prevents the card from being read (other than the topic heading) until it is placed in the viewer. This invisibility enables a team to pass. As many as 3 times during the game, a team has the option before playing or passing on the first topic offered. If the team chooses to pass, it must then accept the next topic drawn, while the other team will have to play the passed-on topic on its next turn.
While many of the topics are timeless, players should be advised beforehand of the year of publication of the edition being played.
Outburst may refer to:
- Outburst Assist, a patented mechanism designed by Columbia River Knife and Tool for various models of assisted opening knives
- Outburst (comics), a fictional superhero
- Outburst (game), a word game
- Outburst (mining), the sudden and violent ejection of coal, gas and rock from a coal face and surrounding strata in an underground coal mine
- Outbursts (Turin Brakes album), an album by the British folk duo
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.