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Answer for the clue "One put out, claiming rights to break in ", 6 letters:
irrupt

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"to break into," 1855, back-formation from irruption or else from Latin irruptus , past participle of irrumpere (see irruption ).

Usage examples of irrupt.

When she seen her old man irrupt from the house, Kit screeched like a scairt catamount, and Buckner heard her.

Yet once again, the dweomer had irrupted into her mind, taken her over with no warning.

An unlikely admixture of sorrow, fear, and nostalgia for another's memories irrupted through my spirit, and as I considered the criteria by which donations might be judged worthy of a Hall of Lost Sounds, I pictured seventeenth-century explorers lying sleepless during their first night on Mauritius, kept awake by the squawk of dodos.

The seething, teeming, unstoppable life of the city irrupted into her once secure domain.