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View synonyms for irruption
irruption
[ ih-ruhp-shuhn ]
noun
- a breaking or bursting in; a violent incursion or invasion.
- Ecology. a sudden increase in an animal population.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of irruption1
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Example Sentences
He made but one fierce and rapid irruption into the neighborhood of the "red sea," and returned sick and shuddering therefrom.
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Came a great irruption of new social, religious, and political ideas into the general European mind.
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By the retreat of Torstensohn, the Emperor was relieved from all fears of an irruption on the side of Bohemia.
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The irruption of Bennie and Zephyr threatened disaster even to this forlorn hope.
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Tamerlane made his irruption through this plain when he took and destroyed so many cities.
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