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noun
Date: 1657
1. a violent expression of feeling <an outburst of anger> 2. a surge of activity or growth <new outbursts of creative power — C. E. Montague> 3. eruption <volcanic outbursts>
New Collegiate Dictionary. 2001.
outburst
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