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発音

• IPA: /ˈaʊtbɹeɪk/
• ハイフネーション: out‧break

名詞

outbreak (plural outbreaks)

1. An eruption; the sudden appearance of a rash, disease, etc.

   Any epidemic outbreak causes understandable panic.

   • 2026 January 9, “US builds case to retain measles elimination status as infections mount”, in CNN‎, sourced from Reuters, archived from the original on 14 February 2026:

     In a December 5 post on X, CDC Acting Director Jim O’Neill said there was no epidemiological evidence linking the Texas outbreak and the ongoing cases in South Carolina.
     A U.S. Health and Human Services spokesman confirmed that the CDC has found no epidemiological evidence linking ongoing outbreaks to Texas, but said many recent U.S. cases share the same genotype and have no known source of infection, “which could indicate ongoing domestic transmission.”

2. A sudden increase.

   There has been an outbreak of vandalism at the school.

   • 2025 November 13, Kamala Thiagarajan, “If you're going to be kind to another human, today is the day to do it!”, in NPR‎, archived from the original on 2 December 2025:

     One such investigation described how kindness can be contagious. It was sparked by reports of an outbreak of kindness on a cold December morning in 2012.

3. (figurative) An outburst or sudden eruption, especially of violence and mischief.

   There has been an outbreak of broken windows in the street.

4. Synonym of breakout (“escape from prison”).

同意語

• (figurative outburst): outburst, tumult

反意語

• inbreak

派生語

動詞

outbreak (third-person singular simple present outbreaks, present participle outbreaking, simple past outbroke, past participle outbroken)

1. (intransitive) To burst out or break forth.

参考

• breakout

アナグラム

• break out, breakout, kabouter, outbrake