eruption

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See also: Eruption and éruption

English

Etymology

From Middle French éruption, from Latin eruptio.

Pronunciation

Noun

eruption (countable and uncountable, plural eruptions)

  1. A violent ejection, such as the spurting out of lava from a volcano.
    a volcanic eruption
  2. A sudden release of pressure or tension.
    There was an eruption of joy at the final whistle.
  3. An utterance, especially a sudden one; an ejaculation.
    • 1976 December 18, Rudy Kikel, “The Doomsday Book by the Jewish Comedian”, in Gay Community News, volume 4, number 25, page 15:
      Ultimately, Greenfield may remind us of no one so much as Boston's own, Sylvia Sidney — "herself" in the amusement business! From whom else does one expect so leveling a sequence of eruptions: "i mean yah gotta win a little money/ i mean we're all whores turning a trick"?
  5. An infection of the skin resulting in a rash or blemishing.

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Interlingua

Noun

eruption (plural eruptiones)

  1. eruption, outbreak
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