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ERUPT

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 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Become active and spew forth lava and rocks

Example:

Vesuvius erupts once in a while

Synonyms:

belch; erupt; extravasate

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "erupt" is one way to...):

burst; explode (burst outward, usually with noise)

Sentence frame:

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Derivation:

eruption (the sudden occurrence of a violent discharge of steam and volcanic material)

eruption ((of volcanos) pouring out fumes or lava (or a deposit so formed))

Sense 2

Meaning:

Erupt or intensify suddenly

Example:

The crowd irrupted into a burst of patriotism

Synonyms:

break open; burst out; erupt; flare; flare up; irrupt

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "erupt" is one way to...):

deepen; intensify (become more intense)

Sentence frames:

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Derivation:

eruption (a sudden violent spontaneous occurrence (usually of some undesirable condition))

Sense 3

Meaning:

Become raw or open

Example:

Such boils tend to recrudesce

Synonyms:

break out; erupt; recrudesce

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "erupt" is one way to...):

ail; pain; trouble (cause bodily suffering to and make sick or indisposed)

Sentence frames:

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Derivation:

eruptive (actively spewing out lava)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Start abruptly

Example:

After 1989, peace broke out in the former East Bloc

Synonyms:

break out; erupt

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "erupt" is one way to...):

begin; start (have a beginning, in a temporal, spatial, or evaluative sense)

Sentence frame:

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Sense 5

Meaning:

Appear on the skin

Example:

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

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "erupt" is one way to...):

appear (come into sight or view)

Verb group:

break through; come out; erupt; push through (break out)

Sentence frames:

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Sense 6

Meaning:

Break out

Example:

The tooth erupted and had to be extracted

Synonyms:

break through; come out; erupt; push through

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "erupt" is one way to...):

appear (come into sight or view)

Verb group:

erupt (appear on the skin)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "erupt"):

dehisce (burst or split open)

Sentence frame:

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Derivation:

eruption (the emergence of a tooth as it breaks through the gum)

Sense 7

Meaning:

Force out or release suddenly and often violently something pent up

Example:

erupt in anger

Synonyms:

break; burst; erupt

Classified under:

Verbs of feeling

Hypernyms (to "erupt" is one way to...):

express emotion; express feelings (give verbal or other expression to one's feelings)

Sentence frame:

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Sense 8

Meaning:

Start to burn or burst into flames

Example:

The oily rags combusted spontaneously

Synonyms:

catch fire; combust; conflagrate; erupt; ignite; take fire

Classified under:

Verbs of raining, snowing, thawing, thundering

Hypernyms (to "erupt" is one way to...):

change state; turn (undergo a transformation or a change of position or action)

Verb group:

burn; combust (cause to burn or combust)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "erupt"):

blow out (erupt in an uncontrolled manner)

catch (start burning)

light up (start to burn with a bright flame)

Sentence frame:

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Credits

 Context examples: 

The erupting supermassive black hole is located in the central galaxy of NGC 5813.

(Chandra Finds Evidence for Serial Black Hole Eruptions, NASA)

Long-term inflammation of the gingiva surrounding the crown of a tooth, usually of an incompletely erupted tooth.

(Chronic Pericoronitis, NCI Thesaurus)

The ability to process solar data in real time is important because flares erupting on the sun affect Earth over the course of minutes.

(Detecting solar flares in real time, National Science Foundation)

At the time of the 1997 flyby, about 124 miles (200 kilometers) above Europa's surface, the Galileo team didn't suspect the spacecraft might be grazing a plume erupting from the icy moon.

(Old Data Reveal New Evidence of Europa Plumes, NASA)

Both flares erupted from an active region labeled AR 2673, which also produced a mid-level solar flare on Sept. 4, 2017.

(Two Significant Solar Flares Imaged by NASA's SDO, NASA)

Specifically, it would be a cryovolcano — a volcano that erupts a liquid made of volatiles such as water, instead of silicates.

(Ceres' Geological Activity, Ice Revealed in New Research, NASA)

Its association with young terrains suggests the material has erupted from within Europa, but with limited data available, the material's chemical composition has remained elusive.

(NASA Research Reveals Europa's Mystery Dark Material Could Be Sea Salt, NASA)

A condition in which a tooth is so crowded in its socket that it cannot erupt normally.

(Impaction, NCI Thesaurus)

It is possible that as pressure builds in cracks and pores in boulders where absorbed water is released, the surface could become agitated, causing particles to erupt.

(NASA's OSIRIS-REx Explains Bennu Mystery Particles, NASA)

Other researchers previously noted these domes' similarity in shape to volcanoes on Earth that erupted underneath ice.

(Clues about Volcanoes Under Ice on Ancient Mars, NASA)