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Sudden vs Inbreak - What's the difference?

sudden | inbreak |

As nouns the difference between sudden and inbreak

is that sudden is (obsolete) an unexpected occurrence; a surprise while inbreak is a sudden violent inroad or incursion; an irruption.

As an adjective sudden

is happening quickly and with little or no warning.

As an adverb sudden

is (poetic) suddenly.

As a verb inbreak is

to break in; break into; make an incursion into; insert into; interrupt.

sudden

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Happening quickly and with little or no warning.
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  • (obsolete) Hastily prepared or employed; quick; rapid.
  • * Shakespeare
  • Never was such a sudden scholar made.
  • * Milton
  • the apples of Asphaltis, appearing goodly to the sudden eye
  • (obsolete) Hasty; violent; rash; precipitate.
  • * Shakespeare
  • I have no joy of this contract to-night: It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden

    Antonyms

    * gradual * unsudden

    Derived terms

    * all of a sudden * sudden death * suddenly * suddenness * suddenwoven

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • (poetic) Suddenly.
  • * Milton
  • Herbs of every leaf that sudden flowered.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) An unexpected occurrence; a surprise.
  • Derived terms

    * all of a sudden * all of the sudden * of a sudden

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    inbreak

    English

    Verb

  • To break in; break into; make an incursion into; insert into; interrupt.
  • *2003 , John S. McClure, The Four Codes of Preaching :
  • Its role is various: to make a claim on, to encounter, to confront, to shake, to inbreak , to erupt, to disrupt, and to disclose.
  • *2004 , William McCloskey, Raiders :
  • "You come back to inbreak again, or you bring kids to do it for you?"
  • *2007 , Sarah McFarland Taylor, Green sisters :
  • Our deepest longing lies wholeheartedly in our single hearted desire for God, in following Jesus, Icon of Wisdom Sophia as he continues to INBREAK [meaning “insert itself”] in our time and in giving ourselves unconditionally for healing of the Earth.

    Derived terms

    * (l)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A sudden violent inroad or incursion; an irruption.