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Irrupted

Irrupted \Ir*rupt"ed\, a. [L. irruptus, p. p. of irrumpere to break in; pref. ir- in + rumpere to break or burst. See Rupture.] Broken with violence.

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irrupted

vb. (en-past of: irrupt)

Usage examples of "irrupted".

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.