Usually means: Explode, release contents violently, burst.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. erupt: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. erupt: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. erupt: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. erupt: Collins English Dictionary
  5. erupt: Vocabulary.com
  6. Erupt, erupt: Wordnik
  7. erupt: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. erupt: Wiktionary
  9. erupt: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. erupt: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. erupt: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. erupt: Dictionary.com
  13. erupt: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Erupt: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Erupt: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. erupt: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. erupt: Rhymezone
  18. erupt: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. erupt: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. erupt: Free Dictionary
  21. erupt: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. erupt: Dictionary/thesaurus
  23. erupt: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

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  1. erupt: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. erupt: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
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  2. erupt: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. ERUPT: Acronym Finder
  2. erupt: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Erupt: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See erupted as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (intransitive) To eject something violently (such as lava or water, as from a volcano or geyser).
verb:  (intransitive) To burst forth; to break out.
verb:  (intransitive, figuratively) To spontaneously release pressure or tension.
verb:  (intransitive, biology) (Of birds, insects, etc.) To suddenly appear in a certain region in large numbers.

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