erupt \e*rupt"\ ([-e]*r[u^]pt"), v. t. [See {eruption}.] To cause to burst forth; to eject; as, to erupt lava. --Huxley.
erupt \e*rupt"\ ([-e]*r[u^]pt"), v. i. [See {eruption}.] 1. To eject something, esp. lava, water, etc., as a volcano or geyser; as, when Mount Saint Helens erupted, some people were taken by surprise. [Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC]
2. To burst forth; to break out, as ashes from a volcano, teeth through the gums, etc.; as, the third molar erupts late in most people, and in some persons does not occur at all. [Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC]
When the amount and power of the steam is equal to the demand, it erupts with violence through the lava flood and gives us a small volcano. --H. J. W. Dam. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Leftist militants last Tuesday fired a shotgun at a West German Finance Ministry official in Bonn, and authorities fear violence could erupt in the streets of West Berlin.
What am I going to say, I'm a plumber?" Cost issues in insurance seem to erupt on a regular basis, accompanied by rising rates, angry responses from state insurance commissioners and threats by companies to drop out of the business.
There were no signs the volcano would erupt again, according to a geologist of the North Sulawesi mining office.
And there is always the possibility that controversies could erupt.
Many banks are worried that a credit card rate war will erupt and hurt profits.
There are widespread fears that it might again erupt in burning and looting if the men are acquitted.
In addition, he said, "You're starting to see more and more people talk about a probable recession." Should an all-out war erupt in the Mideast, analysts envision different scenarios for the market.
But observers say widespread civil unrest could erupt again unless the government bows to protesters' demands for fundamental political change.
Tensions erupt when the businessman won't take on a project that the academics had wanted."
Analysts say a chip war could erupt next year when several more chip-fabrication factories are scheduled to begin production.
But there isn't yet an acceptable solution, so whether it's in the short or medium term, the problem is bound to erupt again.' The French-speakers' blunt demand that the villages be returned to Wallonia, however, seems to have been scaled back.
A prolonged struggle for power could erupt between the rival guerrilla parties, the many different ethnic and regional groups and the semi-autonomous guerrilla military commanders who actually control many parts of Afghanistan, according to some analysts.
Robert Baker, an analyst with Prudential-Bache Securities Inc., said the market's strength came from a stronger feeling that war eventually will erupt in the Middle East.
The priest fled before violence could erupt.
Paul Chertkow, chief currency strategist at Citibank, reckons that the same thing will happen again if war were to erupt.
Demonstrations erupt in the capital and a power outage blacks out the nation.
Readers loved him, writes Ms. Milton, "for the manic gleam in his eye and the sense that wherever he appeared, mayhem could be expected to erupt at any moment."
Unconvinced, some analysts of the economy still are watching wages for signs of trouble, and many were surprised that wage inflation didn't erupt when unemployment dropped below 5.5 percent of the civilian labor supply.
But if hostilities did erupt, regardless of which side initiated them, U.S. forces now are in positions from which they could engage Iraqi ground forces far more quickly than they could have a week ago, they said.
MARKETING BATTLES erupt among business-hungry CPA firms.
But the streets continue to erupt, accompanied by disciplined commercial strikes.
The Orion Pictures movie is scheduled for release April 15, and anti-gang specialists fear violence could erupt at theaters if rival gang members go to see it.
He says he can also be awkward, outspoken and direct when dealing with them. Any arguments that erupt are usually over money, though.
While his clothing is smoothly painted, his head and enormous hands are more roughly rendered and his flesh seems to erupt impatiently through his suit just as the upholstery bursts through the arms of the chair.
More fireworks will erupt at the conference.
The two episodes revealed the hatred that can still erupt from a Protestant majority that regards itself as being under siege, and from a Catholic minority for whom Gibraltar proves there is no British justice in Northern Ireland.
The press would give new meaning to the word "apoplexy," and Congress would erupt.
Each spring and summer for the past decade, unsuspecting swimmers from Deerfield Beach to Jensen Beach have returned home to have their bodies erupt in welts that look like insect bites and itch like poison ivy.
If we had truly bottomed, you'd expect (the dollar) to erupt" skyward, Mr. Glass says.
Thompson testified that violence could erupt and could lead to deaths if both the Chippewa and the state fishermen are allowed to fish on the same lakes.