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"Sudden eruption"2 answers
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Filled answer is this word (OUTBREAK).
Definitions
a sudden violent spontaneous occurrence (usually of some undesirable condition)
Word origin
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”).
Used in a sentence
“Any epidemic outbreak causes understandable panic.”
“There has been an outbreak of vandalism at the school.”
“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.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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