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Eruption   /ˌɪrˈəpʃən/   Listen
noun
eruption  n.  
1.
The act of breaking out or bursting forth; as:
(a)
A violent throwing out of flames, lava, etc., as from a volcano or a fissure in the earth's crust.
(b)
A sudden and overwhelming hostile movement of armed men from one country to another.
(c)
A violent commotion. "All Paris was quiet... to gather fresh strength for the next day's eruption."
2.
That which bursts forth.
3.
A violent exclamation; ejaculation. "He would... break out into bitter and passionate eruditions."
4.
(Med.) The breaking out of pimples, or an efflorescence, as in measles, scarlatina, etc.





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"Eruption" Quotes from Famous Books



... the brilliant flame. Miss Fosbrook is rather appalled, but the children are all safe on the windward side, and seem used to it; so she supposes it is all right, and the flame dies down faster than it rose. It is again an innocent smouldering heap, like a volcano after an eruption. ...
— The Stokesley Secret • Charlotte M. Yonge
... might present the appearance of simple fire-ships, intended only to excite a conflagration of the bridge. On the 'Fortune' a slow match, very carefully prepared, communicated with the submerged mine, which was to explode at a nicely-calculated moment. The eruption of the other floating volcano was to be regulated by an ingenious piece of clock-work, by which, at the appointed time, fire, struck from a flint, was to inflame the hidden mass of ...
— The Rise of the Dutch Republic, 1555-1566 • John Lothrop Motley
... vast eruption of tiny electric lights, and the lights of "the profession," and the demi-monde. Virtue and its antithesis disguised alike in silk attire and pearl collars, rubbed elbows unconcernedly among the papier-mache grottos; the cascades foamed with ...
— The Danger Mark • Robert W. Chambers
... be induced than simulated. I can raise a scarlet eruption on a man's skin; but when it appears, it will bring with it fever ...
— Prince Eugene and His Times • L. Muhlbach
... volume of the crater appear to be equal to that of the surrounding ramparts? His calculations showing him that this was generally the case, he naturally concluded that these ramparts must therefore have been the product of a single eruption, for successive eruptions of volcanic matter would have disturbed this correlation. Euler alone, he found, to be an exception to this general law, as the volume of its crater appeared to be twice as great ...
— All Around the Moon • Jules Verne


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