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Erupt   Listen
verb
erupt  v. t.  To cause to burst forth; to eject; as, to erupt lava.






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"Erupt" Quotes from Famous Books



... any use, papa. We must bide our time. Allyn is queer, most mortal queer; but these may be the mutterings of genius, a volcanic genius that is getting ready to erupt." ...
— Phebe, Her Profession - A Sequel to Teddy: Her Book • Anna Chapin Ray

... chance experiences, or the recollections of others. But the best observers see but very little of what goes on in the youthful soul, the development of which is very largely subterranean. Only when the feelings erupt in some surprising way is the process manifest. The best of these sources are autobiographies, and of these only few are full of the details of this stage. Just as in the mythic prehistoric stage of many nations there is a body of legendary matter, which ...
— Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene • G. Stanley Hall

... volcano that doesn't erupt when there's danger," responded Sibley. "It's when there's just fun on that his volcano gets loose. I'll go wait for him at the bank. I got a fellow-feeling for Mr. Kerry. I'd like to whisper in his ear that he'd better be lookin' sharp for the M'Mahon Gang, and ...
— The Judgment House • Gilbert Parker

... coil of rope, the manufacture of which from plaited strands of the tough grass in his Eden had taken him whole days. With what patience he could find, he was waiting for the gigantic spout of milky-colored, perfumed water which would mean that the geyser had gone off and would erupt no more ...
— Astounding Stories of Super-Science, December 1930 • Various



Words linked to "Erupt" :   intensify, eruption, change state, deepen, dehisce, break through, blow out, take fire, light up, combust, flare, push through, ail, express emotion, pain, burst, trouble, burst out, catch, start, express feelings



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