Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective currently undergoing eruption; -- of volcanoes.
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- verb Present participle of
erupt .
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Examples
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Likemost young couples of their time, they were full of the optimism and hope erupting from the end of that long war.
Another One Gone 2009
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She thrashed and gyrated to an explosive, truly Satanic noise erupting from the walls, which my later research disclosed to be Du Hast by Rammstein.
The Parable of the Spider darkerblogistan 2009
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It gushed forth with unfathomable impossibility as it pushed forward and up like some perverted flood of despair erupting from the bowels of Hell itself.
Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » Frank Murdock’s Review Forum 2009
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Likemost young couples of their time, they were full of the optimism and hope erupting from the end of that long war.
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The screaming and nashing of teeth is Michael Griffin's top management unsuccessful attempt at quashing the "truth" erupting from the bowels of NASA workers.
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Seriously … someone wrote those lines for a movie and some director/casting executive expected Keanu to deliver them without guffaws erupting from the audience.
The Torture Continues (an update)… « 1979 Semi-Finalist… 2008
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The very idea of leaves and espigas erupting from a seashell unmasked the presence of an elaborate imagination even in business matters, which of course is why he got the order in the first place.
Jose Maria Alejos Madrigal: Generations of ceramic creativity in San Jose de Gracia, Michoacan 2008
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The very idea of leaves and espigas erupting from a seashell unmasked the presence of an elaborate imagination even in business matters, which of course is why he got the order in the first place.
Jose Maria Alejos Madrigal: Generations of ceramic creativity in San Jose de Gracia, Michoacan 2008
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I barely felt it, just a dull pain erupting in my stomach for a split second, before an eerie peace settled around me.
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The very idea of leaves and espigas erupting from a seashell unmasked the presence of an elaborate imagination even in business matters, which of course is why he got the order in the first place.
Jose Maria Alejos Madrigal: Generations of ceramic creativity in San Jose de Gracia, Michoacan 2008
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