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irruption
[ ih-ruhp-shuhn ]
noun
- a breaking or bursting in; a violent incursion or invasion.
- Ecology. a sudden increase in an animal population.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of irruption1
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Example Sentences
He made but one fierce and rapid irruption into the neighborhood of the "red sea," and returned sick and shuddering therefrom.
Came a great irruption of new social, religious, and political ideas into the general European mind.
By the retreat of Torstensohn, the Emperor was relieved from all fears of an irruption on the side of Bohemia.
The irruption of Bennie and Zephyr threatened disaster even to this forlorn hope.
Tamerlane made his irruption through this plain when he took and destroyed so many cities.
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