ERUPT • DICTIONARY ONE.COM • Definition of Erupt

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

/ɪrˈəpt/ /ˈɪrəpt/ Listen

verb

erupt v. t. To cause to burst forth; to eject; as, to erupt lava.

erupt v. i.

To eject something, esp. lava, water, etc., as a volcano or geyser; as, when Mount Saint Helens erupted, some people were taken by surprise.

To burst forth; to break out, as ashes from a volcano, teeth through the gums, etc.; as, the third molar erupts late in most people, and in some persons does not occur at all. "When the amount and power of the steam is equal to the demand, it erupts with violence through the lava flood and gives us a small volcano."

See images of 'Erupt'

Etymology of 'Erupt'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

Share |

Add this dictionary
to your browser search bar

"Erupt" Quotes from Famous Books

... Ali's mobile eyebrows underlined his demand. "The forces of law and order may erupt ...

— Plague Ship • Andre Norton

... The slope from the base is 1 in 4.6. The direct distance from Orotava on the map measures 10.5 miles; along the road 18, according to the guides. The terminal chimney and outlet for vapours which would erupt elsewhere, rises 520 feet from its pedestal, the central Rambleta, and its ascent generally occupies an hour. One visitor has reduced this montagne pelee to 60-70 feet, and compares it with the dome of a glass-house. From below it resembles nothing ...

— To the Gold Coast for Gold - A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.--Vol. I • Richard F. Burton

... topple off the common Italian to pile the gray stone with old memories of some great dead man. Everything is ghostly in Rome. Now, there must be some excitement in Southern Italy. There's Vesuvius, and she isn't dead—like Nero—but a living demon, that may erupt any night, and give you a little red grave by the sea for ...

— Mae Madden • Mary Murdoch Mason

... I can make Fenwick understand, I'm sure. It may take a little time, and he may erupt a bit, but it'll ...

— The Great Gray Plague • Raymond F. Jones

... Everything Jar was a long way from finished and the unsatisfied ache of the creative artist made heavy Mrs. Pawket's breast. She surveyed the ceramic, half-erupt with a medley of buttons, screws, safety-pins, hooks, knobs, all covered with their transforming gilt, and tried to imagine how it would seem to have it completed. Then the ultimate anxiety beset her—when completed, ...

— The Best Short Stories of 1919 - and the Yearbook of the American Short Story • Various

More quotes...