Crossword-Solution: ERUPTION
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Eruption | n. | 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. |
| Eruption | n. | That which bursts forth. |
| Eruption | n. | A violent exclamation; ejaculation. |
| Eruption | n. | The breaking out of pimples, or an efflorescence, as in measles, scarlatina, etc. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| ERUPTION | anagram | NIEUPORT |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EAERT
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greedy person
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Sentences with ERUPTION (5)
Space may produce new Worlds; whereof so rife There went a fame in Heav’n that he ere long Intended to create, and therein plant A generation, whom his choice regard Should favour equal to the Sons of Heaven: Thither, if but to prie, shall be perhaps Our first eruption, thither or elsewhere: For this Infernal Pit shall never hold Caelestial Spirits in Bondage, nor th’ Abysse Long under darkness cover.
Now, unless the sandbank had been submitted to the intermittent eruption of a geyser, the _Governor Higginson_ had to do neither more nor less than with an aquatic mammal, unknown till then, which threw up from its blow-holes columns of water mixed with air and vapour.
His talent had gone heaven knows where! He was getting his living by painting views of Vesuvius in eruption on the little boxes they sell at Sorrento.” “Moral: don’t fall in love with a buxom Roman model,” said Roderick.
From the age of seventeen to that of three-and-twenty I was a literary volcano in a constant state of eruption.
And you can see from the kodak that it's just `blowing'--not an eruption from being `shot,' or the people wouldn't stand so near.
Quotes with ERUPTION (3)
The fact that a cloud from a minor volcanic eruption in Iceland — a small disturbance in the complex mechanism of life on the Earth — can bring to a standstill the aerial traffic over an entire continent is a reminder of how, with all its power to transform nature, humankind remains just another species on the planet Earth.
The Earth is God's pinball machine and each quake, tidal wave, flash flood and volcanic eruption is the result of a TILT that occurs when God, cheating, tries to win free games.
In a sudden and soundless eruption, as if he has fallen into a waking dream, a stream of images pours down, images of women he has known on two continents, some from so far away in time that he barely recognizes them. Like leaves blown on the wind, pell-mell, they pass before him. A fair field full of folk: hundreds of lives all tangled with his. He holds his breath, willing the vision to continue. What has happened to them, all those women, all those lives? Are there moments…
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY.
Used 17 times in crossword archives (1970–2022).