Irrupt

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • verb-intransitive. To break or burst in.
  • verb-intransitive. Ecology To increase rapidly and irregularly in number: In the absence of predators, the island's rodent population irrupted.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. To break into.
  • v. To enter forcibly or uninvited.
  • v. To rapidly increase or intensify.
  • v. Misspelling of erupt.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To break or force through: generally used as a participial adjective: as, irrupted barriers.
  • To enter forcibly; rush in: as, the enemy irrupted into the town.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. enter uninvited
  • v. increase rapidly and in an uncontrolled manner
  • v. erupt or intensify suddenly
  • Verb Form
    irrupted    irrupting    irrupts   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    increase    deepen    intensify   
    Form
    irruptive