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 After that, chaos erupted, with dozens of masked people swarming the business. — Lesley Marin, CBS News, 18 Aug. 2026 One person was killed and two others critically injured when gunfire erupted outside a Utah church during a funeral, police said. — Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 17 Aug. 2026 The scandal in question erupted in the eighteen-thirties in the Prussian college town of Königsberg—today, after wars and upheavals, the isolated Russian city of Kaliningrad. — Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 17 Aug. 2026 After the stop, the entire visiting sideline erupted with celebration. — Nick Harris, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 16 Aug. 2026 Bueckers erupted for 13 points in the frame, tied for the most she’s scored in any quarter this season. — James Boyd, New York Times, 15 Aug. 2026 At a red light near the Las Vegas Strip, a white Cadillac pulled up beside them, and gunfire erupted. — Andrew Dalton, Chicago Tribune, 15 Aug. 2026 Moe then reportedly set the firework alight while the child was holding on to it and the device erupted in her hand, per the outlet, citing a complaint. — Gina Kalsi, PEOPLE, 14 Aug. 2026 Roughly 85 seconds later, the vehicle erupted into a fireball during its ascent. — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 10 Aug. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for erupted
  1. ejected
  2. exploded
  3. expelled
  4. emitted
  5. belched
  6. spit
  7. spewed
  8. spurted
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  • Boone didn’t get to watch the disastrous half-inning from the dugout, as he was ejected in the top of the sixth.
    — Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 15 Aug. 2026
  • A week later, on Tuesday, May 19, Southampton were ejected from the play-off final by the EFL’s independent disciplinary commission.
    — Jacob Tanswell, New York Times, 14 Aug. 2026
Definition of ejected
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  • Prediction market platforms have exploded in popularity in recent years, facing condemnation from lawmakers and others who argue the sites commodify human suffering and, in some cases, incentivize wrongdoing.
    — Hannah Fry, Los Angeles Times, 18 Aug. 2026
  • For example, shares of medical platform Doximity exploded earlier this month when CEO Jeffrey Tangney said that the company's AI search product is pulling in revenues-per-search that are 10 times what the tool costs to run.
    — Tobias Burns, CNBC, 17 Aug. 2026
Definition of exploded
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  • He had been expelled from Latitude last school year, authorities said.
    — Jakob Rodgers, Mercury News, 13 Aug. 2026
  • He was expelled from the Communist Party in the late 1950s for criticising the government’s economic policies – and purged again during Mao’s Cultural Revolution a decade later.
    — CNN Staff, CNN Money, 12 Aug. 2026
Definition of expelled
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  • Led by researchers at the University of Cambridge, the mission aims to detect the faint 21-centimeter radio line emitted by early hydrogen atoms operating at low frequencies (10–50 MHz), a signal never before directly observed.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 14 Aug. 2026
  • Amazingly, all this energy from the supernova is only a small fraction (about 1 percent) of the total that’s emitted!
    — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 14 Aug. 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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  • One of them apparently hooked the fish, but the shark spat out the bait, according to Kohanchi’s account of events in the video.
    — Fedor Zarkhin, Los Angeles Times, 15 Aug. 2026
  • When most of us think about edible seeds, our minds usually jump to chia seeds stirred into smoothies or overnight oats, pumpkin seeds roasted after carving jack-o'-lanterns each fall, or sunflower seeds chewed and spit out at a baseball game.
    — Daryl Austin, USA Today, 12 Aug. 2026
Definition of spit
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  • Around 74,000 years ago, a caldera on what is now Sumatra emptied thousands of cubic kilometers of magma in about two weeks, roughly a thousand times more than Mount Pinatubo spewed out in 1991.
    — Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 9 Aug. 2026
  • Early Tuesday morning, the volcano spewed lava that reached a height of about 300 meters (984 feet), triggering red alerts, evacuations, a highway’s closure, and the suspension of classes in three departments.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 5 Aug. 2026
Definition of spewed
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  • 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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