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"the outbreak of hostilities"nouna sudden violent spontaneous occurrence (usually of some undesirable condition)type of:
Definition that contains outbreak
- epidemic a widespread outbreak of an infectious disease; many people are infected at the same time
- hysteria neurotic disorder characterized by violent emotional outbreaks and disturbances of sensory and motor functions
- william lawrence shirer United States broadcast journalist who was in Berlin at the outbreak of World War II (1904-1993)
- hysterical neurosis neurotic disorder characterized by violent emotional outbreaks and disturbances of sensory and motor functions
- legionnaires' disease acute (sometimes fatal) lobar pneumonia caused by bacteria of a kind first recognized after an outbreak of the disease at an American Legion convention in Philadelphia in 1976; characterized by fever and muscle and chest pain and headache and chills and a dry cough
- francis ferdinand archduke of Austria and heir apparent to Francis Joseph I; his assassination at Sarajevo triggered the outbreak of World War I (1863-1914)
- shirer United States broadcast journalist who was in Berlin at the outbreak of World War II (1904-1993)
- franz ferdinand archduke of Austria and heir apparent to Francis Joseph I; his assassination at Sarajevo triggered the outbreak of World War I (1863-1914)