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irrupt

irrupt verb: to break into. Also the misspelling of erupt.

Verb

irrupt (third-person singular simple present irrupts, present participle irrupting, simple past and past participle irrupted)

  1. (transitive) To break into.
  2. (intransitive) To enter forcibly or uninvited.
    • Above all, though, I look back into a modernity where the animation of the object world, the voice of things, or the indistinction of object and subject does not constitute a general (or generalizable, theorizable) condition but irrupts as a discrete event, the aesthetic effects of which range from...2015, Bill Brown, Other Things, Univ of Chicago Press, →ISBN
  3. (intransitive) To rapidly increase or intensify.

Also used as

irrupt is also the misspelling of erupt.

Forms of irrupt

third-person singular presentirrupts
present participleirrupting
past participleirrupted
pastirrupted

Origin of irrupt

From Latin irruptus, past participle of irrumpō.

Words formed from irrupt

Words that rhyme with irrupt

Questions about irrupt

What does irrupt mean?
Irrupt means to break into.
What part of speech is irrupt?
Irrupt is a verb.
What is the past tense of irrupt?
The past tense of irrupt is irrupted.

Words near irrupt in the dictionary

  1. irrumating
  2. irrumatio
  3. irrumation
  4. irrumator
  5. irrumators
  6. irrupt
  7. irrupted
  8. irrupting
  9. irruption
  10. irruptions
  11. irruptive

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