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erupt::verb | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | break, burst |
| Type of | express emotion, express feelings |
erupt in anger.
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | break through, come out, push through |
| Type of | appear |
| Has types | dehisce |
| Derivation | eruption |
The tooth erupted and had to be extracted.
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | catch fire, combust, conflagrate, ignite, take fire |
| Type of | turn, change state |
| Has types | light up, catch, blow out |
| Verb group | burn, combust |
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | break out, recrudesce |
| Type of | ail, pain, trouble |
| Derivation | eruptive |
erupt::verb | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | belch, extravasate |
| Type of | burst, explode |
| Derivation | eruption |
Vesuvius erupts once in a while.
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | appear |
| Verb group | come out, push through, break through |
A rash erupted on her arms after she had touched the exotic plant.
Examples of erupt
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On the slope above them half a dozen vividly red lobsters erupt from the ground.
From the thenewstribune.com
She didn't tell her father the troubling things she saw, fearing he would erupt.
From the washingtonpost.com
On the signal the beach would erupt with men ready to get on with the unloading.
From the guardian.co.uk
One minute they may be relaxing in a chair, the next they erupt into a fireball.
From the newscientist.com
Their eyes open at five days of age, and their milk teeth erupt after 4-6 weeks.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Sections of the crowd erupt as their local favourites take their turn on stage.
From the nzherald.co.nz
The test's prominence ensures that shouting matches will erupt over it regularly.
From the time.com
No one wants another WorldCom or Enron to erupt, let alone responsibility for it.
From the businessweek.com
Leaders worry that crises will erupt when governments are not on top of events.
From the economist.com
- Start abruptly; "After 1989, peace broke out in the former East Bloc"
- Erupt or intensify suddenly; "Unrest erupted in the country"; "Tempers flared at the meeting"; "The crowd irrupted into a burst of patriotism"
- Start to burn or burst into flames; "Marsh gases ignited suddenly"; "The oily rags combusted spontaneously"
- Break out; "The tooth erupted and had to be extracted"
- Become active and spew forth lava and rocks; "Vesuvius erupts once in a while"
- Break: force out or release suddenly and often violently something pent up; "break into tears"; "erupt in anger"
- A volcano is an opening, or rupture, in a planet's surface or crust, which allows hot magma, ash and gases to escape from below the surface.
- (Eruption (album)) Eruption is the third and final full-length album by German experimental music trio Kluster. It is also the only live recording issued by Kluster.
- (Eruption (band)) Eruption was a popular disco / R&B / Soul band in the 1970s and 1980s.
