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Erupt   /ɪrˈəpt/  /ˈɪrəpt/   Listen
Erupt

verb
1.
Start abruptly.  Synonym: break out.
2.
Erupt or intensify suddenly.  Synonyms: break open, burst out, flare, flare up, irrupt.  "Tempers flared at the meeting" , "The crowd irrupted into a burst of patriotism"
3.
Start to burn or burst into flames.  Synonyms: catch fire, combust, conflagrate, ignite, take fire.  "The oily rags combusted spontaneously"
4.
Break out.  Synonyms: break through, come out, push through.
5.
Become active and spew forth lava and rocks.  Synonyms: belch, extravasate.
6.
Force out or release suddenly and often violently something pent up.  Synonyms: break, burst.  "Erupt in anger"
7.
Appear on the skin.
8.
Become raw or open.  Synonyms: break out, recrudesce.  "My skin breaks out when I eat strawberries" , "Such boils tend to recrudesce"



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"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

... you like him?" said Noel. "I detest him myself. That's partly why I'm so keen on smashing his team to-morrow. He's a slippery customer, he and that wily old dog Kobad Shikan. They'd erupt, the two of them, if they dared and overwhelm us all. But—they daren't!" And Noel turned his face upwards, and ...
— The Keeper of the Door • Ethel M. Dell



Words linked to "Erupt" :   express emotion, trouble, express feelings, start, catch, burst, burn, dehisce, blow out, change state, ail, explode, push through, deepen, combust, appear, light up, intensify, pain, turn, begin



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