ERUPT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does erupt mean? 

• ERUPT (verb)
  The verb ERUPT has 8 senses:

1. start abruptly

2. erupt or intensify suddenly

3. start to burn or burst into flames

4. break out

5. become active and spew forth lava and rocks

6. force out or release suddenly and often violently something pent up

7. appear on the skin

8. become raw or open

  Familiarity information: ERUPT used as a verb is common.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ERUPT (verb)

Conjugation:

Sense 1

Meaning:

Start abruptly

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

break out; erupt

Context example:

After 1989, peace broke out in the former East Bloc

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

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

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Sense 2

Meaning:

Erupt or intensify suddenly

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

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

Context example:

The crowd irrupted into a burst of patriotism

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

deepen; intensify (become more intense)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s

Derivation:

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

Sense 3

Meaning:

Start to burn or burst into flames

Classified under:

Verbs of raining, snowing, thawing, thundering

Synonyms:

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

Context example:

The oily rags combusted spontaneously

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:

Something ----s

Sense 4

Meaning:

Break out

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

break through; come out; erupt; push through

Context example:

The tooth erupted and had to be extracted

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:

Something ----s

Derivation:

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

Sense 5

Meaning:

Become active and spew forth lava and rocks

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

belch; erupt; extravasate

Context example:

Vesuvius erupts once in a while

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

burst; explode (burst outward, usually with noise)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

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 6

Meaning:

Force out or release suddenly and often violently something pent up

Classified under:

Verbs of feeling

Synonyms:

break; burst; erupt

Context example:

erupt in anger

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

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

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s PP

Sense 7

Meaning:

Appear on the skin

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Context example:

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

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:

Something ----s
Something is ----ing PP

Sense 8

Meaning:

Become raw or open

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

break out; erupt; recrudesce

Context example:

Such boils tend to recrudesce

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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Somebody ----s

Derivation:

eruptive (actively spewing out lava)

 Context examples 

A NASA spacecraft that will return a sample of a near-Earth asteroid named Bennu to Earth in 2023 made the first-ever close-up observations of particle plumes erupting from an asteroid’s surface.

(NASA Mission Reveals Asteroid Has Big Surprises, NASA)

Yellowstone's plumbing system is no larger or closer to erupting than before, scientists are just seeing more of it than ever before.

(Yellowstone magma discovery, NSF)

Scientists believe that most of the water that goes down at a trench comes back into the atmosphere as water vapor when volcanoes erupt.

(Seismic study reveals huge amount of water dragged into Earth’s interior, National Science Foundation)

In late December 2014, a submarine volcano in the South Pacific Kingdom of Tonga erupted, sending a violent stream of steam, ash and rock into the air.

(NASA Shows New Tongan Island Made of Tuff Stuff, Likely to Persist Years, NASA)

The researchers have two main theories about what caused Sgr A* to erupt in this extreme way.

(NASA’s Chandra Detects Record-Breaking Outburst from Milky Way’s Black Hole, NASA)

They erupt as fast as 60 miles per second, and can reach lengths of 6,000 miles before collapsing.

(Scientists Uncover Origins of the Sun’s Swirling Spicules, NASA)

Lambart and her colleagues wanted to find out what the mantle looks like before it erupts in lava at a mid-ocean ridge.

(Earth's mantle looks like a painting, National Science Foundation)

In 140 years of telescope observations, great storms have erupted on Saturn six times.

(Study Explains Saturn's Epic Tantrums, NASA)

Scientists study such sunspots in order to better understand what causes them to sometimes erupt with solar flares.

(Solar Dynamics Observatory Captures Images of a Mid-Level Solar Flare, NASA)

Aside from Earth, it is the only known place in the solar system with volcanoes erupting extremely hot lava like that on Earth.

(A Hellacious Two Weeks on Jupiter's Moon Io, NASA)