irrupt

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
8
Words With Friends
10
Letters
6

Definition of irrupt

4 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

verb

  1. (transitive)To break into.
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verb

  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 the uncanny to the sublime.”
  3. (intransitive)To rapidly increase or intensify.
  4. (alt-of, misspelling)Misspelling of erupt.

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Etymology

From Latin irruptus, past participle of irrumpō.

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