upbreak
nounEtymology From up- + break.
1
A break-up or division.
- The most ignorant will be wiser than the wisest now is by the time these words can be published, but we think this anticipation is likely to be realised: the probability of upbreak in the "Church" itself increases as the hour of the meeting of the Council approaches.1870, The British and Foreign Evangelical Review, volume 19, page 134:
2
A breaking upward or bursting forth; an upburst.
- the upbreak of the fountains of my heart1856, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “Seventh Book”, in Aurora Leigh, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1857, →OCLC: