Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Broken violently; disrupted.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Broken with violence.

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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of irrupt.

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Examples

  • The whole hallway stopped to look at him and everyone of them irrupted in laughter!

    CodyR Comments 2009

  • The whole hallway stopped to look at him and everyone of them irrupted in laughter!

    CodyR Comments 2009

  • They laid down the Cross, put His hands on it, and drove nails into His hands—not into the fleshy part, but in the wrist area so that the nervous system would be irrupted and pain would shoot all through His body.

    FROM THE CROSS TO PENTECOST T. D. JAKES 2010

  • For later Heidegger, “being” is not a brute fact or timeless dimension of human experience but something that irrupted into human consciousness with the Greeks and can undergo decisive changes such as he hoped the Nazi-Zeit would bring.

    enowning enowning 2008

  • For later Heidegger, “being” is not a brute fact or timeless dimension of human experience but something that irrupted into human consciousness with the Greeks and can undergo decisive changes such as he hoped the Nazi-Zeit would bring.

    Archive 2008-05-01 enowning 2008

  • For later Heidegger, “being” is not a brute fact or timeless dimension of human experience but something that irrupted into human consciousness with the Greeks and can undergo decisive changes such as he hoped the Nazi-Zeit would bring.

    enowning enowning 2008

  • For later Heidegger, “being” is not a brute fact or timeless dimension of human experience but something that irrupted into human consciousness with the Greeks and can undergo decisive changes such as he hoped the Nazi-Zeit would bring.

    Archive 2008-11-01 enowning 2008

  • Called him up, she was very concerned, as you've heard him say and absolutely ecstatic irruption irrupted here and over the course of the past few hours we have seen these bursts of applause as people watch the developments come in and they realize that this really is the truth that Jennifer is OK and that the reunion is going to be underway a little later today.

    CNN Transcript Apr 30, 2005 2005

  • A debate has irrupted, involving many participants, about what constitutes a blog.

    Tony Vs Om: AO-GO-KO? 2004

  • When, promptly at twelve, the doors were unlocked, clusters of shoppers who had been waiting outside on the sidewalks irrupted and dispersed in all directions.

    Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine 2004

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