'erupt' definitions:
Definition of 'erupt'
(from WordNet)
verb
Start abruptly; "After 1989, peace broke out in the former East Bloc" [syn: erupt, break out]
verb
Erupt or intensify suddenly; "Unrest erupted in the country"; "Tempers flared at the meeting"; "The crowd irrupted into a burst of patriotism" [syn: erupt, irrupt, flare up, flare, break open, burst out]
verb
Start to burn or burst into flames; "Marsh gases ignited suddenly"; "The oily rags combusted spontaneously" [syn: erupt, ignite, catch fire, take fire, combust, conflagrate]
verb
Break out; "The tooth erupted and had to be extracted" [syn: erupt, come out, break through, push through]
verb
Become active and spew forth lava and rocks; "Vesuvius erupts once in a while" [syn: erupt, belch, extravasate]
verb
Force out or release suddenly and often violently something pent up; "break into tears"; "erupt in anger" [syn: break, burst, erupt]
verb
Appear on the skin; "A rash erupted on her arms after she had touched the exotic plant"
verb
Become raw or open; "He broke out in hives"; "My skin breaks out when I eat strawberries"; "Such boils tend to recrudesce" [syn: erupt, recrudesce, break out]
Definition of 'erupt'
From: GCIDE
- erupt \e*rupt"\ ([-e]*r[u^]pt"), v. t. [See eruption.] To cause to burst forth; to eject; as, to erupt lava. --Huxley. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'erupt'
From: GCIDE
- erupt \e*rupt"\ ([-e]*r[u^]pt"), v. i. [See eruption.]
- 1. To eject something, esp. lava, water, etc., as a volcano or geyser; as, when Mount Saint Helens erupted, some people were taken by surprise. [Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC]
- 2. 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. [Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC]
- When the amount and power of the steam is equal to the demand, it erupts with violence through the lava flood and gives us a small volcano. --H. J. W. Dam. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Synonyms of 'erupt'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- appear,
- arise,
- bail out,
- be born,
- be brought down,
- be felled,
- be struck down,
- be traumatized,
- become,
- belch,
- blow open,
- blow out,
- blow up,
- bob up,
- boil,
- break cover,
- break forth,
- break out,
- break through,
- burst forth,
- burst out,
- cast forth,
- cast up,
- catch,
- catch cold,
- collapse,
- come,
- come down with,
- come forth,
- come out,
- come to be,
- contract,
- crop up,
- debouch,
- decant,
- detonate,
- discharge,
- disembogue,
- disgorge,
- effuse,
- ejaculate,
- eject,
- emanate,
- emerge,
- emit,
- eruct,
- exhaust,
- exit,
- expel,
- explode,
- extravasate,
- extrude,
- fever,
- find vent,
- flare up,
- flash,
- get,
- get to be,
- gleam,
- go into shock,
- go off,
- have origin,
- hurl,
- hurl forth,
- irrupt,
- issue,
- issue forth,
- jet,
- jump out,
- leak out,
- OD,
- ooze out,
- originate,
- outpour,
- overdose,
- pop up,
- pour,
- pour forth,
- pour out,
- protrude,
- rise,
- run a temperature,
- run out,
- sally,
- sally forth,
- send forth,
- send out,
- sicken,
- spew,
- spew out,
- spout,
- spring up,
- spurt,
- squirt,
- start up,
- surface,
- take,
- take birth,
- take ill,
- take rise,
- throw off,
- throw out,
- throw up,
- touch off,
- vomit,
- vomit forth