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