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erupt

[ih-ruhpt]

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verb (used without object)

to burst forth: Molten lava erupted from the top of the volcano.

(of a volcano, geyser, etc.) to eject matter.

to break out of a pent-up state, usually in a sudden and violent manner: Words of anger erupted from her.

to break out in a skin rash: Hives erupted all over his face and hands.

(of teeth) to grow through surrounding hard and soft tissues and become visible in the mouth.

verb (used with object)

to release violently; burst forth with: She erupted angry words.

(of a volcano, geyser, etc.) to eject (matter).

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Origin:
1650–60; < Latin ēruptus burst forth, broken out (past participle of ērumpere), equivalent to ē- e- + ruptus, past participle of rumpere to break, rupture

Related forms

e·rupt·i·ble, adjective

pre·e·rupt, verb (used without object)

re·e·rupt, verb (used without object)

un·e·rupt·ed, adjective

Synonyms
1, 6. vent.

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Most of the world's volcanoes probably erupt under the oceans.

Our patience may also dry up when, week after week, new troubles erupt.

Attempt to impose a new order from the outside and violence is all but sure to erupt.

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Most of the world's volcanoes probably erupt under the oceans.

Our patience may also dry up when, week after week, new troubles erupt.

Attempt to impose a new order from the outside and violence is all but sure to erupt.

Huge flames erupt beneath your rocket as it blasts off.

Also, see how scientists are learning to predict where, when and even how the next blazes will erupt.

But exactly when the caldera will erupt is difficult to predict.

But they erupt rather different compositions of magma, which is harder to reconcile with a single source.

Blisters form on the lips but may also erupt on the tongue.

Leaders worry that crises will erupt when governments are not on top of events.

So the switch to volcanoes that erupt above water might have allowed oxygen to build up.

We've got more on why volcano monitoring is important and what causes a volcano to erupt.

The terrific noise it emitted was an explosion which made it erupt several fragments of volcanic materials.

However, the seismicity doesn't necessarily have to be magma moving up to erupt.

Heart attacks and strokes brew in the predawn hours and often erupt after sunrise.

Despite the reprisal bombing, gun battles continued to erupt at flash points.

The volcanologists went into the volcano to learn how to predict when it would erupt.

Fights could erupt at a moment's notice, over females in heat or territory, but mostly over food.

The next genocide may erupt in a place or in a manner that no one predicts.

Despite major advances in technology in the last two decades, the ability to predict when a volcano might erupt remains elusive.

The authorities may well have feared water-related disputes might erupt during the games.

It is amazing to watch a volcano erupt and to experience how new land forms.

Even then, security is still dicey around the edges of the district, where skirmishes frequently erupt.

Volcanoes are full of surprises-dangerous ones that spew out when they erupt.

As many of these branches are revived for the campaign, trench warfare is likely to erupt over the succession.

Most battles erupt around the government oil fields.

Occasionally the senior loop would erupt at bat and more frequently the junior loop would come through with gilt-edge hurling.

Sometimes, those frustrations can bubble to the surface and they erupt on social networking sites.

If predicting when a volcano will erupt is difficult, predicting exactly how it will erupt is even trickier.

In the bird embryo these bristles erupt from tiny patches of skin cells called placodes.

Helens, erupt rarely and sometimes extremely destructively.

The situation, which may now be defused, could erupt again.

The idea that violence will erupt as drought and rising sea levels displace people from their.

Rashes erupt everywhere, itching so badly they seem to live inside his skin.

Raw emotions erupt and subside and erupt again in an ebb and flow that feels absolutely true.

Then have students share their thoughts about why it would be important to learn when the volcano will erupt again.

The kids practice gunfire drills, scrambling under their desks when shots erupt across the street.

And the subject is feelings: managing your own and those that erupt in relationships.

Riots erupt when the rates charged by the water company prove ruinous.

The volcano has begun to erupt after a brief hiatus.

Fights that erupt under pennant pressure are not unusual, but they are always fist fights.

Bright arches of hot glowing gas erupt from the surface of the sun.

These magmas rise into the lithosphere and crust and eventually erupt on the surface as arc-related magmas.

As the date draws near, however, simmering international tensions soon erupt into global thermonuclear war.

Submerged volcanoes spew a different set of gases than those that erupt into the air.

The world will not be cast into fire from volcanoes that erupt because the ice sheets.

Today, scientists study the volcano and claim it has the potential to erupt again, possibly not so far in the future.

But they worry that unrest will erupt again once the holidays end.

Helens is that volcanoes can rumble back to life and erupt in short periods of time, he said.

Boulders erupt from the earth, float weightlessly in the air, and then smash unexpectedly to the ground.

Sooner or later, the gas is going to erupt with potentially deadly effect.

Such clouds can erupt dramatically when they break free of the sun's unstable hold.

Jags of red rock and black iron erupt from the landscape, often bolting right out of the.

McEwan demonstrates how violence and horror can erupt from what that mind does not know about itself.

They are constantly twitching about, and giving out half-screeches or chips before they erupt into a full screech.

You'll float through the plumes of superheated water that erupt from hydrothermal vents atop molten rock that cooks far below.

Ambrym's volcano close up and to witness the lava lakes in these paired pits, which fulminate constantly but rarely erupt.

Nor would the mantle rocks suddenly erupt out of the hole, since the channel would be narrow and mantle rocks aren't molten.

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World English Dictionary

erupt (ɪˈrʌpt)

—vb
1.	to eject (steam, water, and volcanic material such as lava and ash) violently or (of volcanic material, etc) to be so ejected
2.	(intr) (of a skin blemish) to appear on the skin; break out
3.	(intr) (of a tooth) to emerge through the gum and become visible during the normal process of tooth development
4.	(intr) to burst forth suddenly and violently, as from restraint: to erupt in anger

[C17: from Latin ēruptus having burst forth, from ērumpere, from rumpere to burst]

e'ruptible

—*adj*

e'ruption

—n

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Word Origin & History

erupt

1650s, of diseases, etc., from L. erupt-, pp. stem of erumpere (see eruption). Of volcanoes, from 1770. Related: Erupted; erupting.

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Medical Dictionary

erupt e·rupt (ĭ-rŭpt')
v. e·rupt·ed, e·rupt·ing, e·rupts

To break through the gums in developing. Used of teeth.
To appear on the skin. Used of a rash or blemish.

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