Crossword clues for irrupt
irrupt
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"to break into," 1855, back-formation from irruption or else from Latin irruptus, past participle of irrumpere (see irruption).
Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context transitive English) To break into. 2 (context intransitive English) To enter forcibly or uninvited. 3 (context intransitive English) To rapidly increase or intensify. 4 (misspelling of erupt English)
WordNet
v. enter uninvited; "They intruded on our dinner party"; "She irrupted into our sitting room" [syn: intrude]
erupt or intensify suddenly; "Unrest erupted in the country"; "Tempers flared at the meeting"; "The crowd irrupted into a burst of patriotism" [syn: erupt, flare up, flare, break open, burst out]
increase rapidly and in an uncontrolled manner; "The population of India is exploding"; "The island's rodent population irrupted" [syn: explode]
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.