Inbreak

Definitions

  • Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
    • n Inbreak A breaking in; inroad; invasion.
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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
    • n inbreak A sudden, violent inroad or incursion; an irruption: opposed to outbreak.
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Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
    • n Inbreak in′brāk a violent rush in: irruption
    • Inbreak opp. to Outbreak
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Usage

In literature:

They can swim in smooth water, though they are, of course, ill able to contend with an inbreak of the sea.
"Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 5 November 1848" by Various
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