Word Meanings - ERUPTION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The breaking out of pimples, or an efflorescence, as in measles, scarlatina, etc. (more info) 1. The act of breaking out or bursting forth; as: A violent throwing out of flames, lava, etc., as from a volcano of a fissure in the earth's crust.

Additional info about word: ERUPTION

The breaking out of pimples, or an efflorescence, as in measles, scarlatina, etc. (more info) 1. The act of breaking out or bursting forth; as: A violent throwing out of flames, lava, etc., as from a volcano of a fissure in the earth's crust. A sudden and overwhelming hostile movement of armed men from one country to another. Milton. A violent commotion. All Paris was quiet . . . to gather fresh strength for the next day's eruption. W. Irving. 2. That which bursts forth. 3. A violent exclamation; ejaculation. He would . . . break out into bitter and passionate eruditions. Sir H. Wotton.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of ERUPTION)

• Ebullition
• Boiling
• effervescence
• outburst
• paroxysm
• eruption
• Exsufflation
• eructation
• Pimple
• Pustule
• blotch

Related words: (words related to ERUPTION)

• BLOTCH
  A large pustule, or a coarse eruption. Foul scurf and blotches him defile. Thomson. (more info) black, as bleach is akin to bleak. See Black, a., or cf. Blot a 1. A blot or spot, as of color or of ink; especially a large or irregular spot. Also
• EFFERVESCENCE; EFFERVESCENCY
  A kind of natural ebullition; that commotion of a fluid which takes place when some part of the mass flies off in a gaseous form, producing innumerable small bubbles; as, the effervescence of a carbonate with citric acid.
• PAROXYSMAL
  Of the nature of a paroxysm; characterized or accompanied by paroxysms; as, a paroxysmal pain; paroxysmal temper. -- Par`ox*ys"mal*ly, adv.
• PIMPLE
  Any small acuminated elevation of the cuticle, whether going on to suppuration or not. "All eyes can see a pimple on her nose." Pope. 2. Fig.: A swelling or protuberance like a pimple. "A pimple that portends a future sprout." Cowper.
• BOILED
  Dressed or cooked by boiling; subjected to the action of a boiling liquid; as, boiled meat; a boiled dinner; boiled clothes.
• BOILARY
  See BOILERY
• BLOTCHED
  Marked or covered with blotches. To give their blotched and blistered bodies ease. Drayton.
• OUTBURST
  A bursting forth.
• BOILING
  Heated to the point of bubbling; heaving with bubbles; in tumultuous agitation, as boiling liquid; surging; seething; swelling with heat, ardor, or passion. Boiling point, the temperature at which a fluid is converted into vapor, with the phenomena
• PUSTULE
  A vesicle or an elevation of the cuticle with an inflamed base, containing pus. Malignant pustule. See under Malignant.
• BOIL
  a bubbling motion, from bulla bubble; akin to Gr. , Lith. bumbuls. 1. To be agitated, or tumultuously moved, as a liquid by the generation and rising of bubbles of steam , or of currents produced by heating it to the boiling point; to be in a
• BOILERY
  A place and apparatus for boiling, as for evaporating brine in salt making.
• EXSUFFLATION
  A kind of exorcism by blowing with the breath. Jer. Taylor. (more info) 1. A blast from beneath. Bacon.
• ERUPTION
  The breaking out of pimples, or an efflorescence, as in measles, scarlatina, etc. (more info) 1. The act of breaking out or bursting forth; as: A violent throwing out of flames, lava, etc., as from a volcano of a fissure in the earth's crust.
• EBULLITION
  1. A boiling or bubbling up of a liquid; the motion produced in a liquid by its rapid conversion into vapor. 2. Effervescence occasioned by fermentation or by any other process which causes the liberation of a gas or an aëriform fluid, as in the
• PIMPLED
  Having pimples. Johnson.
• ERUCTATION
  1. The act of belching wind from the stomach; a belch. 2. A violent belching out or emitting, as of gaseous or other matter from the crater of a volcano, geyser, etc.
• ERUPTIONAL
  Eruptive. R. A. Proctor.
• BLOTCHY
  Having blotches.
• BOILINGLY
  With boiling or ebullition. And lakes of bitumen rise boiling higher. Byron.
• REBULLITION
  The act of boiling up or effervescing. Sir H. Wotton.
• OVERBOIL
  To boil over or unduly. Nor is discontent to keep the mind Deep in its fountain, lest it overboil In the hot throng. Byron.
• IMBOIL
  See EMBOIL
• NATAL BOIL
  = Aleppo boil.
• ALEPPO BOIL; ALEPPO BUTTON; ALEPPO EVIL
  A chronic skin affection terminating in an ulcer, most commonly of the face. It is endemic along the Mediterranean, and is probably due to a specific bacillus. Called also Aleppo ulcer, Biskara boil, Delhi boil, Oriental sore, etc.
• PARBOIL
  through + bouillir to boil, L. bullire. The sense has been 1. To boil or cook thoroughly. B. Jonson. 2. To boil in part; to cook partially by boiling.
• LANCASHIRE BOILER
  . A steam boiler having two flues which contain the furnaces and extend through the boiler from end to end.
• INEFFERVESCENCE
  Want of effervescence. Kirwan.
• DEBULLITION
  A bubbling or boiling over. Bailey.