0 an occasion when a volcano explodes, and flames and rocks come out of it; (of a volcano) the act of doing this:
Scientists fear that a volcanic eruption on the Canary Island of La Palma will send a chunk of island collapsing into the sea.
Pompeii is famed for its burial by an eruption of Italy's Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79.
Recent eruptions have claimed the lives of journalists and scientists.
A survey conducted one month before the eruption of the turmoil showed that 84% of people believed the government to be corrupt.
She was always having to deal with eruptions of family dysfunction.
He has a hair-trigger temper and a history of eruptions.
Alternatively, relicts of the intruding layer may solidify completely and not be sampled by subsequent eruptions.
The eruption of the border war stoked the old fears of survival, and revived the sense of collective responsibility nurtured for half a century.
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