erupt : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: erupt	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for erupt
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
erupt v start abruptly; "After 1989, peace broke out in the former East Bloc" Synonym(s): erupt, break out erupt or intensify suddenly; "Unrest erupted in the country"; "Tempers flared at the meeting"; "The crowd irrupted into a burst of patriotism" Synonym(s): erupt, irrupt, flare up, flare, break open, burst out start to burn or burst into flames; "Marsh gases ignited suddenly"; "The oily rags combusted spontaneously" Synonym(s): erupt, ignite, catch fire, take fire, combust, conflagrate break out; "The tooth erupted and had to be extracted" Synonym(s): erupt, come out, break through, push through become active and spew forth lava and rocks; "Vesuvius erupts once in a while" Synonym(s): erupt, belch, extravasate force out or release suddenly and often violently something pent up; "break into tears"; "erupt in anger" Synonym(s): break, burst, erupt appear on the skin; "A rash erupted on her arms after she had touched the exotic plant" become raw or open; "He broke out in hives"; "My skin breaks out when I eat strawberries"; "Such boils tend to recrudesce" Synonym(s): erupt, recrudesce, break out
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Erupt \E*rupt"\, v. i. [See {Eruption}.] 1. To eject something, esp. lava, water, etc., as a volcano or geyser. 2. To burst forth; to break out, as ashes from a volcano, teeth through the gums, etc. 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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Erupt \Erupt"\, v. t. [See {Eruption}.] To cause to burst forth; to eject; as, to erupt* lava. --Huxley.