Synonyms:
outbreak, eruption, irruption
Meaning: a sudden violent spontaneous occurrence (usually of some undesirable condition); "the outbreak of hostilities"
Usage examples
If the man Bickersdyke is proved to have had good grounds for his outbreak, he shall escape uncensured.
At the outbreak of the World War, he was hurriedly sent to France, under the command of Sir John French, his old leader in Africa.
The number of graduates before the year 1812 was very small; but at the outbreak of the war the corps of engineers was already efficient.
This wild outbreak on the part of Sola so greatly surprised and shocked the other women, that, after a few words of general reprimand, they all lapsed into silence and were soon asleep.
And, doubtless, he would, in this first outbreak, have carried the intention into effect without a moment's consideration of the consequences, if he had not been restrained, in part, by corresponding violence on the side of Mr. Brownlow, who was himself of an irascible temperament, and party by such arguments and representations as seemed best calculated to dissuade him from his hotbrained purpose.