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outburst

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outburst [′au̇t‚bərst]
(meteorology)
Outflow from a convective event originating in cool descending air, often associated with a thunderstorm.
(mining engineering)
The sudden issue of gases, chiefly methane (sometimes accompanied by coal dust), from the working face of a coal mine.


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In the first moment of Pierre's outburst Anna Pavlovna, despite her social experience, was horror-struck.
Even the magnificent outburst at the beginning of this book, in which the unhappy woman compares her heart to a dying moon, is prefaced by vague complaint:
A fitting end, this, to a life of usefulness and crime - in a last outburst of an evil passion supremely satisfied on some wild night, perhaps, to the applauding clamour of wind and wave.
 
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