Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The act of bursting forth; a bursting out.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun rare The act or state of bursting forth; a bursting out.

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  • noun The act or state of bursting forth; a bursting out.

Etymologies

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Latin proruptio, from prorumpere, proruptum, to break forth; pro forth + rumpere to break.

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