Eruption is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for ERUPTION in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the action of a volcano
• an act or instance of erupting
• a sudden outbreak of something, typically something unwelcome or noisy
• a spot, rash, or other mark appearing suddenly on the skin
• The act of breaking out or bursting forth; as: (a) A violent throwing out of flames, lava, etc., as from a volcano of a fissure in the earth\'s crust. (b) A sudden and overwhelming hostile movement of armed men from one country to another. Milton. (c) A violent commotion.
• That which bursts forth.
• A violent exclamation; ejaculation.
• The breaking out of pimples, or an efflorescence, as in measles, scarlatina, etc.
• the sudden occurrence of a violent discharge of steam and volcanic material
• symptom consisting of a breaking out and becoming visible
• (of volcanos) pouring out fumes or lava (or a deposit so formed)
• a sudden violent spontaneous occurrence (usually of some undesirable condition)
• a sudden very loud noise
• the emergence of a tooth as it breaks through the gum
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• the act of erupting

Words related to ERUPTION

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Words that contain ERUPTION

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How to use ERUPTION in a sentence

• The strangest fact about this eruption was, that the mountain did not make use of its old crater.
• Rapid currents bearing all these gases in diffusion and torrents of lava slid to the bottom of the mountain like an eruption of Vesuvius on another Terra del Greco.
• In his time, too, Mount Vesuvius suddenly woke from its rest, and by a dreadful eruption destroyed the two cities at its foot, Herculaneum and Pompeii.
• There was a great eruption among the marriageable prospects of Ashcroft, because many of them had dropped a real bone into the water in snapping at the illusory shadow.
• The roof of the burning shack fell in, sending a lovely eruption of sparks to the black sky.
• The week passed all too swiftly, and then came a letter from Colonel Angeli telling them to return to Naples and witness the results of the eruption.
• The last two years had rather blotted out those periods of eruption.
• The volcano on the main island had burst into a state of eruption.
• He looked round him by the lurid light of the eruption.
• If you have any acquaintance who has ever used this means of covering his face with a manly down, ask him which came first, the beard, or a troublesome eruption on the face.
• These grew fainter and fainter, and in a little while the eruption seemed to have entirely subsided, for Timor was swallowed up once more in the impenetrable mantle of night.
• However, no sign of smoke or vapor, no heating of the rock, indicated an approaching eruption.
• There was no doubt in his mind that the most recent eruption had occurred at a far-distant epoch.
• The Emperor Maximus advanced to meet the furious tyrant, but the stroke of domestic conspiracy prevented the further eruption of civil war.
• It was as if an eruption of white hot matter burst up from the interior.
• There comes before us now another frightful eruption, one of the greatest in its history, that of 1906.
• After the great eruption of 1871-72 the land covered with cinders did not bear crops for seven years, and there is no reason that they will do so sooner on the present occasion.
• A very violent eruption, which lasted more than nine months, commenced on the 21st of August, 1852.
• It was preceded by a long series of earthquakes, which had become exceedingly violent immediately before the eruption.
• One side of the mountain fell in, and then the eruption began.
• In this eruption, as usual, we find the earthquake preceding the volcanic outburst.
• Perhaps those Scripture phrases were suggested by the sight of some volcano in eruption.
• The latest important eruption here was that of Ometepec, a volcanic mount on an island of the same name in Lake Nicaragua.
• A GRAPHIC DESCRIPTION OF THE ERUPTION Another effect, of a distressing character, followed the eruption.
• Lucia, on May 11th, I went on board the British steamship Roddam, which had escaped from the terrible volcanic eruption at Martinique two days before.
• Evergreens, flowers and aromatic shrubs clothed the steep sides of the crater, which made, as the first indication of the eruption on April 27, 1812, a tremulous noise in the air.
• In 1783, about a month before the eruption of Skaptar Jokull, a volcanic island named Nyoe, from which fire and smoke issued, was built up.
• It plays several times in the course of the twenty-four hours, and sends a column of water sixty feet high, the eruption lasting an hour.
• Through such scenes the imperial pleasure party rode, until a high mountain appeared through an avenue cut in the forest, representing Mount Vesuvius during an eruption.
• Rectangular ribbon does not mean that there is no eruption it means that if there is no place to hold there is no place to spread.

Similar words containing ERUP without suffix tion

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