Increase and Outbreak

Increase

Increase noun - Something added (as by growth).

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Outbreak and increase are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Outbreak" instead a noun "Increase".

Outbreak noun - A sudden and usually temporary growth of activity.

Usage example: there was an immediate outbreak of paper shuffling and a pretense of work when the supervisor passed through the room

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Increase and outbreak are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Increase" instead a noun "Outbreak".

Nearby Word: outbreaking

actual	actual increase	actual outbreak
massive	massive increase	massive outbreak
large	large increase	large outbreak
big	big increase	big outbreak
Other adjectives: huge, new, major, widespread, minor, larger, inexplicable, recent, sudden, resulting, global, exponential.

In the original Dead Rising, Carlito Keyes kicks off the zombie outbreak in Willamette as part of his plan to take revenge for Santa Cabenza, a South American town that housed a wasp that was found to create zombies during the US government's experiments to increase meat production.

Source: The Heavy

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