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eruption
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WordNet
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n. the sudden occurrence of a violent discharge of steam and volcanic material [syn: volcanic eruption ] symptom consisting of a breaking out and becoming visible (of volcanos) pouring out fumes or lava (or a deposit so formed) [syn: eructation , extravasation ...
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An eruption most commonly is related to volcanos , as in " types of volcanic eruptions " (see the largest ones ). It can also refer to: Tooth eruption , the emergence of teeth through the gum Eruption (band) , a British disco/R&B band in the 1970s and 1980s ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
eruption \e*rup"tion\, n. [L. eruptio, fr. erumpere, eruptum, to break out; e out + rumpere, to break: cf. F. ['e]ruption. See Rupture .] The act of breaking out or bursting forth; as: A violent throwing out of flames, lava, etc., as from a volcano ...
Usage examples of eruption.
The eruption upon the skin is but a local manifestation of a functional fault, which must be overcome by alterative remedies.
It was behind this monstrous trapezoidal gateway that the horror was building, as water builds behind a weakening dam a soft, shifting, bodiless evil, an unspeakable eruption into the land of the living from out of black abysses of space and time.
Externally, Rue is an active irritant to the skin, the bruised leaves blistering the hands, and causing a pustular eruption.
The poor girl was so fearfully covered with the loathsome eruption, that on the sixth day her skin could not be seen on any part of her body.
We have occasionally observed cutaneous eruptions and erysipelas, when evidently they were distinct signs of internal disorder.
The dermal manifestations, such as urticaria and eruptions resembling the exanthem of scarlatina, are too well known to need mention here.
And yet, the princess was the brother of Prince Manrico, an interesting fact for a galactic adventurer with a frug wrapped around his head and a temper gradually growing to eruption point.
The geyserite implied volcanism beneath, and also intermittent steam eruptions, which might have been what they had seen the night before.
Next day, after I had breakfasted and duly embraced my brother, I set out in a nice carriage with the Abbe Alfani, Le Duc preceding me on horseback, and I reached Naples at a time when everybody was in a state of excitement because an eruption of Vesuvius seemed imminent.
At the last stage the inn-keeper made me read the will of his father who had died during the eruption of 1754.
Monte Rosso was formed by the eruption of 1669, which threw out a torrent of lava that flowed thirteen miles, destroying a great part of the city of Catania in its resistless course to the sea, where it formed a rugged promontory which at this day appears as black, bare, and herbless as on the day when its fiery course was arrested by the boiling waters.
This Calsabigi, whose whole body was one mass of eruption, always worked in bed, and the minister, his master, went to see him almost every day.
Music swelled from the speakers, and a message flashed against a stunning picture of steam eruptions along a glittering blue shore: katharsis protects our sacred spaces.
Irish married woman of forty, the subject of rheumatic fever, who occasionally had a blue serous discharge or perspiration that literally flowed from her legs and body, and accompanied by a miliary eruption.
The mischievous effects of an earthquake, or deluge, a hurricane, or the eruption of a volcano, bear a very inconsiderable portion to the ordinary calamities of war, as they are now moderated by the prudence or humanity of the princes of Europe, who amuse their own leisure, and exercise the courage of their subjects, in the practice of the military art.