erupted

verb

past tense of erupt
1
as in ejected
to violently throw out or off (something from within) the volcano erupted clouds of poisonous gas and tons of hot ash

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2
as in exploded
to develop suddenly and violently a fire erupted, and flames soon engulfed the room

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Recent Examples of erupted About 400 firefighters worked to contain the flames, which erupted just ahead of a July 14 national holiday and on the first major weekend for departures for the summer holiday season. — CBS News, 13 July 2026 The Cape Verde supporters also erupted in the 62nd minute when their beloved 40-year-old goalkeeper Vozinha denied Messi at point-blank range. — Michelle Kaufman, Miami Herald, 13 July 2026 With most eyes on the Summit Fire, which had burned nearly 2,700 acres by Saturday evening, a second fire erupted in the Antelope Valley. — Dakota Smith, Los Angeles Times, 12 July 2026 The royal siblings were animated fans in the stands and erupted in cheers when Carlos Alcaraz of Spain clinched the win. — Janine Henni, PEOPLE, 12 July 2026 In the years after the pandemic, when interest rates fell to historic lows, the housing market erupted. — Samantha Delouya, CNN Money, 11 July 2026 Just 18 months later in summer 2025, the shop suffered moderate smoke damage after a fire at the Torreador restaurant erupted next door. — Noelle Alviz-Gransee, Kansas City Star, 10 July 2026 Perhaps the greatest civilian-military controversy erupted in 1951 when President Harry Truman fired General Douglas MacArthur for publicly challenging the administration’s approach to the Korean War. — Missy Ryan, The Atlantic, 10 July 2026 Nine months after the revolution, the war between Iran and Iraq erupted in September 1980, lasting eight years and costing more than a million lives. — Mahsa Alimardani, Time, 6 July 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for erupted
  1. ejected
  2. exploded
  3. expelled
  4. emitted
  5. belched
  6. spit
  7. spewed
  8. spurted
Verb
  • San Diego’s manager Craig Stammen and coach Ryan Goins were ejected three pitches into the game after arguing a check-swing call.
    — Liana Handler Follow, Los Angeles Times, 6 July 2026
  • Balogun, a star striker who has scored three goals so far in this year’s tournament, received a red card and was ejected from last week’s US game against Bosnia and Herzegovina for a foul against a defender.
    — Yash Roy, Fortune, 5 July 2026
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  • Even as blue-collar wages increased, housing prices in most parts of the country exploded, keeping many Latinos who had been saving up locked out of the market.
    — Jack Herrera, New Yorker, 14 July 2026
  • For one, the Men’s World Cup in the North America has exploded interest in American soccer — a fact that has been written about relentlessly in the past few months.
    — Alex Zietlow July 14, Charlotte Observer, 14 July 2026
Definition of exploded
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  • The day of the cyber attack, Yazbak said the Department of Administrative Services expelled the attacker from the state’s systems.
    — Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 9 July 2026
  • Our previous Representative in Congress, Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick had to resign hours before being expelled by her colleagues on both sides of the aisle for fraud.
    — Elijah Manley, Sun Sentinel, 9 July 2026
Definition of expelled
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  • From an environmental standpoint, there is no gas emitted into the air from induction, so air quality is much improved, too.
    — Daley Quinn, Southern Living, 11 July 2026
  • The company emitted 20 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent in 2025, up from 16 million metric tons the prior year, Microsoft said Thursday in its annual sustainability report.
    — Matt Day, Fortune, 9 July 2026
Definition of emitted
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  • For decades, Saarland’s foundries and furnaces belched black into the sky.
    — Jeff Chu, Travel + Leisure, 6 July 2026
  • The rare isotope is mostly locked away deep within our world’s innards, but vanishingly small quantities are belched out in volcanic eruptions and through natural gas pipelines.
    — Robin George Andrews, Scientific American, 14 May 2026
Definition of belched
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  • That’s when a 17-year-old girl spit at an officer when she was asked to leave the area, authorities said.
    — WBFF STAFF, Baltimore Sun, 13 July 2026
  • Lowry, in the meantime, would embark on a two-decade career in a league that spits out frauds on the regular.
    — Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 8 July 2026
Definition of spit
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  • Its results spewed from a transactional firehose Tuesday morning.
    — Dan Woike, New York Times, 2 July 2026
  • While France made a strong effort to reverse course in recent years, the European nation has spewed a cumulative total of about 40 billion tonnes of CO2 emissions throughout its history.
    — Joe Wilkins, Futurism, 1 July 2026
Definition of spewed
Verb
  • Someone spurted hair spray on Tate McRae’s long locks.
    — Jane Bua, New Yorker, 14 May 2026
  • Oil prices spurted higher early this week on worries that the war will keep the Strait of Hormuz closed for a long time.
    — Stan Choe, Los Angeles Times, 1 May 2026
Definition of spurted

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