Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of breaking out; an outbreak.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of breaking out.
- noun That which bursts forth.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The act of
breaking out . - noun That which bursts forth.
- verb Present participle of
outbreak .
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Examples
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And it touched me to the very heaven of my heart when I discovered that if the dying man was unconverted, an "outbreaking" sinner, he was wont to omit the harder doctrines, and generously lift him to the Lord in prayer upon the easy pledge of faith.
A Circuit Rider's Wife Corra Harris 1902
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Standing squarely in the the tradition of the Hebrew scriptures, the early Jewish Christians saw in the life of Christ yet another outbreaking of the promises of God to those far off, to the other, the stranger, the foreigner, even the heathen.
Christopher Cocca: The Radical Welcome of Epiphany Christopher Cocca 2011
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Standing squarely in the the tradition of the Hebrew scriptures, the early Jewish Christians saw in the life of Christ yet another outbreaking of the promises of God to those far off, to the other, the stranger, the foreigner, even the heathen.
Christopher Cocca: The Radical Welcome of Epiphany Christopher Cocca 2011
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However, the border between outbreaking and non-outbreaking populations of geometrid moths is likely to move northward if climate changes.
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High larval predation rate in non-outbreaking populations of a geometrid moth.
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Resident Evil forgot all about the "raccoon city incident" in favor of a government conspiracy to suppress an outbreaking accidential contamination of flesh eating zombie viroids.
Filmstalker: Video games and Hollywood: Who's adapting who? 2009
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A day trip to visit the grave of their father turns into a living hell for Barbra (Judith O'Dea) and her brother Johnny (Russell Streiner), who happen into the middle of the outbreaking zombie plague just as it begins, with any explanation for the sudden terror besieging them amounting to nil.
Archive 2007-10-01 2007
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A day trip to visit the grave of their father turns into a living hell for Barbra (Judith O'Dea) and her brother Johnny (Russell Streiner), who happen into the middle of the outbreaking zombie plague just as it begins, with any explanation for the sudden terror besieging them amounting to nil.
31 Days of Zombie!, Day 31: Night of the Living Dead (George A. Romero, 1968) 2007
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America that would be a bad idea for the number of outbreaking insects that feed on Picea, many of these genera occurring in Asia.
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He had gone from worse to worse, after the first outbreaking from the strict home rules, until he had become at length a by-word in the village, and anxious mothers warned their sons against companionship with wicked Samson
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 50, December, 1861 Various
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