0 present participle of erupt
1 When a volcano erupts, it explodes and flames and rocks come out of it:
Inner-city riots erupted when a local man was shot by police.
A big diplomatic row erupted as a result.
Spontaneous demonstrations erupt almost daily.
A legal fight has erupted between two of the world's largest oil companies.
An influential news magazine in the country has enumerated forty cases of ethno-religious conflict erupting within this period.
The problem is not that his true self is being thwarted by alien forces erupting from the nether regions of his psyche.
She dwells at the threshold of the knowable, and, as if further to illustrate this existence on the edge, ultimately evaporates into the lava of an erupting volcano.
