Word Finder - outburst

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A sudden, often violent expression of emotion or activity.

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To burst out.

He recalled her outburst at him the previous day.

Ammon had yet another outburst of glory.

This outburst of temper was a grave blunder.

There is little doubt that this savage outburst was.

The circumstances of the final outburst of Saul's hatred, which drove David into exile, are not easily disentangled.

For a minute after the patio door slid shut she stood in stunned silence, too shocked by his outburst to think of a response.

Open-air conventicles were held in all parts of the provinces, and the fierce Calvinist preachers raised the religious excitement of their hearers to such aitch that it found vent in a furious outburst The lcono- P oasts.

Socially they suffered by the outburst of religious animosity.

The fear of being imprisoned in a convent for the rest of her life was the determining cause of her irresistible outburst of energy.

I did provoke the outburst; it's just that I preferred not to notice the fact.

Neither sorrow nor regret followed my passionate outburst.

He not only showed no sign of constraint or self-reproach on account of his outburst that morning, but, on the contrary, tried to reassure Balashev.

He'd been waiting for just such an outburst.

The failure caused a savage outburst of wrath in the country.

Lani At 24, I was shocked to discover a strange outburst of what turned out to be herpes on my lips.

By just being in close proximity, the Referee can (without actually doing anything) provoke a spontaneous outburst from irate players.

The outburst may represent a transitory stage in a star 's evolution that is rarely seen.

While you are upset, stop and think about why you are having an outburst.

When in this state, even the smallest disturbance can trigger s server emotional outburst.

Courses whether in person or online will provide you with several alternatives to an angry outburst.

If you have an outburst, accept it, understand what went wrong and learn how you can improve.

Of course, this type of angry racial outburst is not likely to go unnoticed.

The War of Independence was attended by a grand outburst of political dogmatism of the democratic type.

Recent history, and in particular the history of democracy, claims for its province the several stages whereby this principle was developed in England and America, and its outburst in the frenzy of the French Revolution.

In September 1900 a fresh outburst of hostile feeling against Chile was created in Argentina by a note addressed by the Chilean government to Bolivia, intimating that Chile was no longer inclined to hand over the port of Arica or any other port on the Pacific, but considered the time ripe for a final settlement of the questions connected with the Chilean occupation of Bolivian territory, which had now been outstanding for sixteen years.

Antiochus punished an outburst of strife between the rivals by plundering the Temple and slaying many of the inhabitants (170 B.C.).

This was the signal for an outburst of popular discontent with the existing order of a far more ominous character than any that had preceded it.

The remarkable outburst of literary culture in Northumbria during the 7th and 8th centuries produced a real historian in Bede; Bede, however, knows little or nothing of English history between 450 and 596, and he is valuable only for the 7th and early part of the 8th centuries.

In 1730 the appearance of half the island was altered by a volcanic outburst.

The great outburst of Sentences at a later time has been referred to the consternation produced by Abelard's Sic et Non.

But before the great outburst of scholasticism, ancient literature found a somewhat less inadequate channel in Arabian and partly even in Jewish scholarship. Aristotle was no longer strained through the meshes of Boetius; study of and the new light inspired Roscellinus with heresy.

There are often long intervals between the successive outbreaks, and many of the volcanoes (and this is especially true of the chains of craters) have only vented themselves in a solitary outburst.

Not only did certain newspapers, such as the Capitole and the Journal du Commerce, and clubs, such as the Culottes de peau carry it on zealously; but the diplomatic humiliation of France in the affair of Mehemet Ali in 1840, with the outburst of patriotism which accompanied it, followed by the concessions made by the government to public opinion, such as, for example, the bringing back of the ashes of Napoleon I., all helped to revive revolutionary and Napoleonic memories.

In the 4th century there was a veritable renaissance in Gaul, the Intel- last outburst of a dying flame, which yet bore witness lectual also to the general decadence.

The dauphins flight from Paris excited a wild outburst of monarchist loyalty and anger against the capital among the nobility and in the statesgeneral of Compigne.

The American war had finally exhausted the exchequer, and, in order to replenish it, he would have needed to inspire confidence in the minds of capitalists; but the resumption in 2778 of the plan of provincial assemblies charged with remodelling the various imposts, and his corn pterendu in which he exhibited the monarchy paying its pensioners for their inactivity as it had never paid its agents for their zeal, aroused a fresh outburst of anger.

For them the right to work had been asserted, among others by Turgot, as a natural right opposed to the caprices of the arbitrary and selfish aristocracy of the corporations, and a breach had been made in the tyranny of the masters which had endeavoured to set a barrier to the astonishing outburst of industrial force which was destined to characterize the coming age.

France was saved by them and by that admirable outburst of patriotism which provided 750,000 patriots for the army through the general levy of the 16th of August 1793, Defeat of aided, moreover, by the mistakes of her enemies.

The conspiracy of Cadoudal and Pichegru, after Bonapartes refusal to give place to Louis XVIII., and the political execution of the duc dEnghien, provoked an outburst of adulation, of which Bonaparte took advantage to put the crowning touch to his ambitious dream.

Dr Wallis Budge visited several of the far southern sites and made some tentative excavations, but no extensive explorations were undertaken until an unexpected event produced a sudden outburst of activity.

As regards foreign affairs, Mr Chamberlain more than once (and particularly at Leicester on 30th November 18 9 9) indicated his leanings towards a closer understanding between the British empire, the United States and Germany, - a suggestion which did not save him from an extravagant outburst of German hostility during the Boer War.

The pews of the pope's escape was received at Constance with an extraordinary outburst of rage, and led to the subversive decrees of the 4th and 5th sessions, which proclaimed the superiority of the council over the pope.

Finally, the Second Part of England's New Chains Discovered, a violent outburst against "the dominion of a council of state, and a constitution of a new and unexperienced nature," became the subject of discussion in the House, and led anew to the imprisonment of its author in the Tower on the 11th of April.

During the outburst event, the normally faint star suddenly brightened, becoming 600,000 times more luminous than our Sun.

No outburst surely, in enemy country, but for us, the final certitude to be free and alive.

It isn't an angry outburst - more a passionate eulogy for American virtues strong enough to survive times like these.

Classical novae are seen to erupt once, and the amplitude of the outburst is the largest among CVs.

Mark has a violent outburst against some children who have been bullying him which is witnessed by Sophie.

The House Church Movement began in the Seventies in a spontaneous outburst of small groups worshipping in their own homes.

The case of the classical nova outburst has been mentioned above.