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eruption
eruption is a 8-letter English word with 10 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
8 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 13 · 10 senses
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- 1noun
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.
- 2noun
That which bursts forth.
- 3noun
A violent exclamation; ejaculation.
- 4noun
The breaking out of pimples, or an efflorescence, as in measles, scarlatina, etc.
- 5noun
the emergence of a tooth as it breaks through the gum
- 6noun
a sudden very loud noise
- 7noun
a sudden violent spontaneous occurrence (usually of some undesirable condition)
"the outbreak of hostilities"
- 8noun
the sudden occurrence of a violent discharge of steam and volcanic material
- 9noun
(of volcanos) pouring out fumes or lava (or a deposit so formed)
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- 10noun
symptom consisting of a breaking out and becoming visible
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