Erupt

Definitions: Erupt

Erupt

Verb

1. Start abruptly; "After 1989, peace broke out in the former East Bloc".

2. Erupt or intensify suddenly; "Unrest erupted in the country"; "Tempers flared at the meeting".

3. Start to burn; "Marsh gases ignited suddenly.".

4. As of teeth, for example; "The tooth erupted and had to be extracted".

5. Become active and spew forth lava and rocks; of volcanoes; "Vesuvius erupts once in a while".

6. Become suddenly excited or angry; "She flares up easily".

7. Force out or release suddenly and often violently something pent up; "break into tears"; "erupt in anger".

8. Become raw or open; as of skin eruptions; "He broke out in hives"; "My skin breaks out when I eat strawberries"; "Such boils tend to recrudesce".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "erupt" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1980. (references)

Synonyms: Erupt

Ejection

Spew forth, erupt, ooze; (emerge).

Crosswords: Erupt

You must take him to his ancient home world, which will soon erupt in an orgy of invertebrate sex. (Futurama; writing credit: Lance Smith; Carl Colpaert)

Seething animal passions about to erupt through the pie crust of decorum. (Bedrooms and Hallways; writing credit: Robert Farrar)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• What Happens When Volcanoes Erupt (What Happens When) (reference)

• What Volcano Will Soon Erupt and Shake the Whole World? (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Erupt (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Health

The temperature change causes the blister to erupt, exposing the worm. When someone with aGuinea worm ulcer enters the water, the adult female emerges from the wound and releases a milky white liquid containing millions of immature worms into the water, thus contaminating the water supply. (references)

Travel

Kenya

From time to time, political or ethnic tensions erupt in outbreaks of civil disorder or political violence. (references)

Worker Rights

Poland

The Commission serves as an important forum in which the social partners air differences, discuss grievances, and often negotiate agreements before problems erupt into social conflict. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Albanian

shpërthej (blast, blow up, break, break out, burst, detonate, explode, flame out, flame up, freak, implode, let off, poke out), mbushem me puçrra (pustulate), gufon (boil, eject, expel, heave, spout, spring, spurt, vomit), dal (appear, arise, beetle, brush off, come into being, come out, come up, creep out, develop, egress, emerge, exhaust, exit, flow out, get out, get out of, go out, leave, let out, open, run out, sprout, stand out, stick up, turn out, turn up). (various references)

Arabic 

‏نفث (breathe, emit, expectoration, expel, utter), ‏تنفط (eruption), ‏إنفجر (blaze, blow out, blow up, break, burst, crack, rupture, spew forth, split), ‏أطلق (cast, cast off, divorce, draw, eject, emanate, enlarge, evolve, fire, generalize, give off, liberate, loose, open, project, relax, release, shoot, slip, speed, spout, toss, touch off, unchain, unlock, utter), ‏ثور البركان. (various references)

Bulgarian 

бълвам (belch, spew, throw up, vomit), пониквам (come up, come up to the surface, grow, pullulate, push through, put out, spring up), изригвам (belch, eruct, shoot out, spew, spout, spue, vomit), избухвам (blaze, blow, blow up, break forth, burst out, explode, fire, flash, fly into a rage, fulminate, go off the deep end, lose one's temper, pop off), избивам (beat out, burst out, knock out, massacre, slaughter, start out, strike). (various references)

Chinese 

喷发 (erupting). (various references)

Czech

vybuchnout (blow up, break out, detonate, explode, go bang, go off, pop off), prořezávat se, dojít k. (various references)

Farsi 

فوران کردن (Geyser, Spout, Spurt), فشاندن , منفجرشدن (Blowout, Detonate, Explode, Puff), جوانه زدن (Branch, Bud, Burgeon, Germinate, Grain, Leaf, Nip, Peep, Ratoon, Shoot, Sprit, Sprout, Spurt, Tiller), جوش دراوردن (Pimple), درامدن (Burgeon, Enter, Measure), دراوردن (Evolve, Gouge, Render, Wisp). (various references)

Finnish

purkautua (be broken off, be cancelled, come undone, discharge). (various references)

French

entrer en éruption, faire lancer, faire éruption, éclater. (various references)

German

ausbrechen (blow out, blow up, break away, break loose, break off, break out, break up, bring up, burst, burst out, bust, bust out, come away, come on, dragging, escape, explode, get loose, heave up, outburst, swerve, swerving off the runway, swing, throw up, to break out, to erupt, vomit). (various references)

Greek 

ξεσπώ (break out, burst, burst into), εκρήγνυμαι (blast, blow up, detonate, explode, go off). (various references)

Hebrew 

לפרוץ (breach, break, break forth, break through, burst, crack, demolish, pry open, spout, spread), ל�"ת�'לע (break out, burst out). (various references)

Hungarian

vulkán kitör, kinõ. (various references)

Indonesian

meletus. (various references)

Italian

eruttare (belch, burp, eruct, eructate, throw out), entrare in eruzione, scoppiare (bang, blow, break, break out, burst, explode, pop, puncture, to break to pieces, to burst, to crack). (various references)

Korean 

분�"하십시�" (Differentiate). (various references)

Manx

giarrey (abbreviate, abridge, abridging, axe, beat out, bob the tail; severance, bob; severance, carve, castrate, cleave, clip, clip as words; slicing, clip; slicing, condensation, condense, condensing, crop, crop as tail, curtail, curtailment, cut, cut away, cut back, cut short, cut up, disconnect, disconnection, dissect, eruption, flux, gash, hack, hew, incise, incision, infliction, intersect, intersection, lance, levy, lop, mark out, nicking, prune, pruning, puncture, reaping, scission, section, sever, shear, sink, slash, slit, snip, truncate), bruightey (belch, belching, eruption), brooaney, brishey magh (bud, burst open, burst out, crop out, declare, eruption, outbreak, outburst). (various references)

Norwegian

være i utbrudd, bryte fram. (various references)

Pig Latin

eruptay

Portuguese

cultura (accomplishments, breeding, civilization, crop, crop growing, cultivation, culture, farming, gerontology, growing, growth, management, niceness, scholarship, seeding, sowing). (various references)

Romanian

erupe (break out), izbucni (break forth, break out, burst, burst into, burst out, flare, fling, gush, spurt), ieşi (appear, be gone, become, come out, draw out, escape, exhaust, exit, fade, get out, go out, issue, result, run, spring, start, start out, step out). (various references)

Russian 

прорезываться (teethe), извергаться, извергать (disgorge, ejaculate, eject, eructate, excrete, regurgitate, reject, spew, spout). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

izbljuvati (eructate, puke, vomit), izbiti (beat, break out, burst in, burst out, lambaste, strike, thrash, trounce), buknuti (blaze, burst, burst into, flame out, flare, flare up). (various references)

Spanish

hacer erupción. (various references)

Swedish

få ett utbrott. (various references)

Thai

ทำให้ระเบิ�", ระเบิ�" (bomb, dynamite, dynamiter). (various references)

Turkish

patlamak (blow, blow out, blow up, break, burst, crack, detonate, explode, fulminate, go off, go pop, go up, knock back, let fly, plonk, plunk, pop, puncture, set back, snap, spring), patlak vermek (blow up, break out, burst, burst out, explode, outcrop), püskürmek (blow out, eructate, spout), fışkırmak (belch, blow, burst, ejaculate, flush, gush out, spout, spurt, squirt, well, well forth, well out, well up), çıkmak (ascend, break out, break through, climb, come about, come off, come on, come out, come to a head, come up, crop out, date, date up, detach, drop out, emanate, emerge, escalate, eventuate, exit, extricate oneself, extrude, flirt, get off, go for, go forth, go off, go out, go together, go with, grow out of, grow up, hatch, have it's source in, issue, jut, jut out, keep company with, knock about, knock around, launch, launch out, move out, occur, originate, peep, peep out, photograph, point, present oneself, prove, puff out, puff up, pull out, pullulate, quit, rise, rub off, rub out, sally forth, sally out, secede, separate, shoot out, spoon, spring, stem, step out, step up, stick, stick out, take it's source from, take out, take to, walk out, walk out of, walk out with, well forth, work out), çıkagelmek (blow in, happen along, happen in, pop in, pop up, roll up, show up, turn up). (various references)

Ukranian 

вивергатися (disgorge), вивергати (disgorge, effuse, ejaculate, emit, regorge, regurgitate, throw), прориватися (burst). (various references)

ardescebant, arserit, erumpant, erumpe, erumpebant, erumpebat, erumpens, erumpentes, erumpentium, erumpere, erumpet, erumpite, erumpo, erumpunt. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "erupt": erupted, eruptible, erupting, eruption, eruptions, eruptive, eruptively, eruptives, erupts. (additional references)

Words containing "erupt": posteruptive. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Erupt" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: arrupt, arupt, brupt, ejup, Erap, Erdut, eriot, erit, eroit, erot, erott, erp, Errep, errup, errupt, erubt, erup, erupe, erypt, etup, eut, Kerkut, rupt, serut. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: pert, pure, true.

-2 letters: per, pet, pur, put, rep, ret, rue, rut, tup.

-3 letters: er, et, pe, re, up, ut.

+1 letter: erupts, pouter, precut, punter, purest, putter, repute, roupet, troupe, uprate, uptear, uptore.

+2 letters: capture, crumpet, cuprite, erupted, imputer, parquet, pasture, permute, perturb, petrous, picture, posture, poulter, pouters, poutier, precuts, proteus, prudent, puberty, punster, punters, putrefy, putters, puttier, rapture, reputed, reputes, rupture, spouter, spurted, spurtle, sputter, stumper, sumpter, tempura, thumper, trouped, trouper, troupes, trumped, trumpet, turpeth, updater, uprated, uprates, upstare, uptears, upthrew, uptrend, writeup.

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