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eruption

nounattested in dialogue

  • //ɪˈɹʌpʃən//

A violent ejection, such as the spurting out of lava from a volcano.

noun

  1. 1

    A violent ejection, such as the spurting out of lava from a volcano.

    a volcanic eruption

  2. 2

    A sudden release of pressure or tension.

    There was an eruption of joy at the final whistle.

  3. 3

    An utterance, especially a sudden one; an ejaculation.

    Ultimately, Greenfield may remind us of no one so much as Boston's own, Sylvia Sidney — "herself" in the amusement business! From whom else does one expect so leveling a sequence of eruptions: "i mean yah gotta win a little money/ i mean we're all whores turning a trick"?

  4. 4

    An infection of the skin resulting in a rash or blemishing.

Etymology

From Middle French éruption, from Latin eruptio.

Forms

plural
eruptions
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).