Outbreak vs Occurrence - What's the difference?
outbreak | occurrence |
An eruption, sudden appearance
A sudden increase.
An outburst or sudden eruption, especially of violence and mischief.
(uncountable) A geological layer that breaks out
To burst out
To break forth
Actual instance where a situation arises.
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As nouns the difference between outbreak and occurrence
is that outbreak is an eruption, sudden appearance while occurrence is actual instance where a situation arises.As a verb outbreak
is to burst out.outbreak
English
Noun
(wikipedia outbreak) (en noun)- ''Any epidemic outbreak causes understandable panic
- There has been an outbreak of vandalism at the school.
- There has been an outbreak of broken windows in the street.
Synonyms
* outburst * tumultAntonyms
* (l)Verb
See also
* breakoutAnagrams
* *occurrence
English
Noun
(en noun)Unspontaneous combustion, passage=Since the mid-1980s, when Indonesia first began to clear its bountiful forests on an industrial scale in favour of lucrative palm-oil plantations, “haze” has become an almost annual occurrence in South-East Asia. The cheapest way to clear logged woodland is to burn it, producing an acrid cloud of foul white smoke that, carried by the wind, can cover hundreds, or even thousands, of square miles.}}