irrupt
English
editPronunciation
edit- Rhymes: -ʌpt
Etymology 1
editFrom Latin irruptus, past participle of irrumpō.
Verb
editirrupt (third-person singular simple present irrupts, present participle irrupting, simple past and past participle irrupted)
- (transitive) To break into.
- (intransitive) To enter forcibly or uninvited.
- 2015, Bill Brown, Other Things, Univ of Chicago Press, →ISBN:
- 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.
- (intransitive) To rapidly increase or intensify.
Derived terms
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editTranslations
editEtymology 2
editVerb
editirrupt
- Misspelling of erupt.
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