outbreak

名词 n. 动词 v.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An eruption; the sudden appearance of a rash, disease, etc.
    — Any epidemic outbreak causes understandable panic.
  2. A sudden increase.
    — There has been an outbreak of vandalism at the school.
  3. An outburst or sudden eruption, especially of violence and mischief. figuratively
    — There has been an outbreak of broken windows in the street.
  4. Synonym of breakout (“escape from prison”).
动词 v.
  1. To burst out or break forth. intransitive

词形变化

outbreaks plural outbreaks present,singular,third-person outbreaking participle,present outbroke past outbroken participle,past

词源

词源 1
From Middle English outbreken, oute-breken, from Old English ūtābrecan (“to break out”), equivalent to out- + break. Cognate with Saterland Frisian uutbreeke (“to break out, burst out”), West Frisian útbrekke (“to break out”), Dutch uitbreken (“to break out, burst out”), German ausbrechen (“to break out, erupt”).
The noun is cognate with Saterland Frisian Uutbreek (“outbreak”), West Frisian útbrek (“outbreak”), Dutch uitbraak (“outbreak”), and German Ausbruch (“outbreak”), and is comparable to Danish udbrud (“outbreak”), Faroese and Icelandic útbrot (“rash”), Norwegian utbrudd (“outbreak”), and Swedish utbrott (“outbreak”).
词源 2
From Middle English outbreken, oute-breken, from Old English ūtābrecan (“to break out”), equivalent to out- + break. Cognate with Saterland Frisian uutbreeke (“to break out, burst out”), West Frisian útbrekke (“to break out”), Dutch uitbreken (“to break out, burst out”), German ausbrechen (“to break out, erupt”).
The noun is cognate with Saterland Frisian Uutbreek (“outbreak”), West Frisian útbrek (“outbreak”), Dutch uitbraak (“outbreak”), and German Ausbruch (“outbreak”), and is comparable to Danish udbrud (“outbreak”), Faroese and Icelandic útbrot (“rash”), Norwegian utbrudd (“outbreak”), and Swedish utbrott (“outbreak”).
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