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What does erupt mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word erupt? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. (intransitive) To eject something violently (such as lava or water, as from a volcano or geyser).
  2. (intransitive) To burst forth; to break out.
  3. (intransitive, figuratively) To spontaneously release pressure or tension.
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When anger turns into rage, it is no longer amenable to reason and can easily erupt into violence.
But as soon as they are seen from any distance, they erupt into pulsing centripetal and centrifugal vortices.
I've never known a holiday to be spoiled, or even darkened, by an argument, by tensions that crackle and erupt in sharp words.
It was a crime that finally ignited a powder keg and caused simmering tensions to erupt into violence.
I saw many feuds erupt in a blaze of automatic fire, peppering the walls with bullets that whined through the air like demonic bees.
Trinbagonians hit the streets at 1am for Jouvert, a small-hours celebration that sees the capital erupt with abandoned sensuality.

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