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irrupting

irrupting is the present participle and gerund of irrupt.

Meaning of irrupt

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.

Questions about irrupting

What is irrupting the present participle and gerund of?
Irrupting is the present participle and gerund of irrupt.

Words near irrupting in the dictionary

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

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