upbreakn.
1. An eruption or outburst.
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the world > action or operation > manner of action > violent action or operation > [noun] > bursting violently from rest or restraint > instance of
outbreakinga1387
breaking-out1552
outbreak1562
eruption1598
storm1602
out-breach1609
fulmination1623
outflying1641
outburst1657
float1763
overboiling1767
irruption1811
gush1821
outflash1831
outflush1834
shooting forth1837
outbursting1838
blow-off1842
outblaze1843
upburst1843
upthrow1855
upbreak1856
spurt1859
outlash1868
spitfire1886
Brock's benefit1948
1856 E. B. Browning Aurora Leigh vii. 277 Through all The upbreak of the fountains of my heart.
1871 E. F. Burr Ad Fidem xiv. 277 A furious upbreak of unbelief.
2. A breaking-up or dissolution.
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the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > [noun] > dissolution or destruction of a connected system
upbreaking1493
dissolution1528
catalysis1655
upbreak1882
1882 Macmillan's Mag. 45 496 The upbreak of the Catholico-Feudal System.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1926; most recently modified version published online September 2021).
upbreakv.
/ʌpˈbreɪk/ΘΚΠ
the mind > language > speech > speak [verb (intransitive)] > begin to speak
upbreakc1275
to set spell on enda1300
gina1333
to take up (one's) parablea1382
braidc1400
to take up the word1477
begin1563
exordiate1594
to speak upa1723
to lug out1787
to speak out1792
upspeak1827
exordize1887
shoot1915
open1926
to come in1949
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 2708 Þeo hit [alles] up bræc [c1300 Otho vp brac] hit wes god þat he spec.
c1320 Castel Love 457 So þat Pees a-last vp-breek, And þus to hire Fader speek.
2. transitive. To break up; to break open.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > breaking up land > break up land [verb (transitive)]
inhook1265
upbreak1382
becarvea1425
subvert1479
ripea1500
outrive1598
the world > space > relative position > condition of being open or not closed > open [verb (transitive)] > force or wrench open
unspurna1300
upbreak1382
to strike up1467
to break open1594
wrench1607
force1623
spring1825
1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Gen. xix. 9 Now nyȝ it was that thei shulden vp breke [L. effringerent] the ȝatis.
a1400 Octouian 190 The emperour tho..gan vp-breke The dore.
c1440 Pallad. on Husb. viii. 1 At Iuyl the lond vpbroken in Aprile Is eft to plowe.
1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis i. 7 Thee stags vpbreaking they slit to the dulcet or inchepyn.
1855 T. T. Lynch Rivulet viii. 12 As a field Is by the plough up-broken for the corn.
1885 R. Bridges Eros & Psyche iii. iv. 28 The sun..Upbroke the grey dome of the morning sky.
3. intransitive. To force or make a way upward or to the surface.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > upward movement > rise or go up [verb (intransitive)] > by force
upbreak1859
1859 Ld. Tennyson Guinevere in Idylls of King 245 They..rode..over sheets of hyacinth That seem'd the heavens upbreaking thro' the earth.
1887 Cornhill Mag. Aug. 214 When from the gloom Of the dark earth upbreaks the tender bloom.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1926; most recently modified version published online September 2018).
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