Definition of Outbursts

1. Noun. (plural of outburst) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Outbursts

1. outburst [n] - See also: outburst

Lexicographical Neighbors of Outbursts

outbulks
outbullied
outbullies
outbully
outbullying
outburn
outburned
outburning
outburns
outburnt
outburp
outburst
outburst flood
outbursted
outbursting
outbursts
outbuy
outbuying
outbuys
outby
outbye
outcalls
outcampaign
outcampaigned
outcampaigning
outcant
outcanted
outcanting
outcants

Literary usage of Outbursts

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Annual Report (1873)
"manifold dislocations by later outbursts, and one of the instances is represented ... Here we have evidence of three distinct outbursts of trachytic masses ..."

2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"... in the simple and childlike lyric yearning of the ingenuous soul, again in the loftiest and most vehement outbursts of which man's nature is capable. ..."

3. Geology by Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin, Rollin D. Salisbury (1905)
"Successive partial outbursts.—It seems consistent with the conditions of the case to assume that the protuberances would consist of a succession of more or ..."

4. Geology by Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin, Rollin D. Salisbury (1905)
"Successive partial outbursts.—It seems consistent with the conditions of the case to assume that the protuberances would consist of a succession of more or ..."

5. Geology by Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin, Rollin D. Salisbury (1906)
"Successive partial outbursts.—It seems consistent with the conditions of the case to assume that the protuberances would consist of a succession of more or ..."

6. Transactions of the Manchester Geological Society by Manchester Geological Society (1895)
"Mine managers inform me that one way of reducing the effects of these outbursts of solid coal at ' slack-veins' is to take as wide a face as possible where ..."

7. Journal by Chartered Insurance Institute (1889)
"The consumption of coal was comparatively small ; with uninterrupted working it did not exceed 12 tons a month.* Outbursts of Gas in Metalliferous Mines. ..."

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