What does erupt mean?

Definitions for erupt
ɪˈrʌpterupt

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. erupt, break outverb

    start abruptly

    "After 1989, peace broke out in the former East Bloc"

  2. erupt, irrupt, flare up, flare, break open, burst outverb

    erupt or intensify suddenly

    "Unrest erupted in the country"; "Tempers flared at the meeting"; "The crowd irrupted into a burst of patriotism"

  3. erupt, ignite, catch fire, take fire, combust, conflagrateverb

    start to burn or burst into flames

    "Marsh gases ignited suddenly"; "The oily rags combusted spontaneously"

  4. erupt, come out, break through, push throughverb

    break out

    "The tooth erupted and had to be extracted"

  5. erupt, belch, extravasateverb

    become active and spew forth lava and rocks

    "Vesuvius erupts once in a while"

  6. break, burst, eruptverb

    force out or release suddenly and often violently something pent up

    "break into tears"; "erupt in anger"

  7. eruptverb

    appear on the skin

    "A rash erupted on her arms after she had touched the exotic plant"

  8. erupt, recrudesce, break outverb

    become raw or open

    "He broke out in hives"; "My skin breaks out when I eat strawberries"; "Such boils tend to recrudesce"

GCIDE

  1. eruptverb

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

  2. eruptverb

    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.

Wiktionary

  1. eruptverb

    to violently eject

    the volcano erupted, spewing lava across a wide area

  2. eruptverb

    to spontaneously release pressure or tension

    the crowd erupted in anger

Wikipedia

  1. erupt

    An eruption most commonly relates to volcanoes, see types of volcanic eruptions.

ChatGPT

  1. erupt

    Erupt generally refers to suddenly release or explode with force and loudly, or become dramatically apparent or active. This can apply to a variety of contexts such as a volcano releasing lava, a sudden outbreak of a disease, strong emotions breaking out uncontrollably, or a sudden violent event taking place.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Eruptverb

    to cause to burst forth; to eject; as, to erupt lava

  2. Etymology: [See eruption.]

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Erupt

    e-rupt′, v.i. to break out or through, as a volcano.—n. Erup′tion, a breaking or bursting forth: that which bursts forth: a breaking out of spots on the skin.—adjs. Erup′tional; Erupt′ive, breaking forth: attended by or producing eruption: produced by eruption.—n. Erupt′iveness. [L. erumpĕre, eruptum.—e, out, rumpĕre, to break.]

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Anagrams for erupt »

  1. 'puter

  2. Puter

  3. puter

  4. Putre

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of erupt in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of erupt in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of erupt in a Sentence

  1. South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley:

    In the face of overwhelming video evidence that something had gone terribly wrong, South Carolina did not erupt in riots or violence.

  2. Bill Murtagh:

    The sunspots are localized stressed magnetic structures on the sun that have the potential to erupt and release energy in the form of solar flares, coronal mass ejections, and when that occurs that radiation makes it's way to Earth and affects a lot of technology.

  3. Jake Lowenstern:

    Yellowstone hasn't had a volcanic eruption for 70,000 years! Geysers erupt all the time.

  4. Defense Secretary Ashton Carter:

    We need to make sure that the North Koreans always understand that any provocation with them will be dealt with and that they stand no chance of defeating us and our allies in South Korea, it's probably the single place on the world -- in the world -- where war could erupt at the snap of our fingers.

  5. Captain Clint Earls:

    The only thing we are waiting on is getting some of the victims in well-enough health to where they can shed some light on what caused the incident to erupt.

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