irrupt

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ʌpt

Etymology 1

From Latin irruptus, past participle of irrumpō.

Verb

irrupt (third-person singular simple present irrupts, present participle irrupting, simple past and past participle irrupted)

1. (transitive) To break into.
2. (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.

3. (intransitive) To rapidly increase or intensify.

Derived terms

• irruptive

Related terms

• irruption

Translations

To break into

• Bulgarian: нахълтвам (bg) (nahǎltvam)

To enter forcibly or uninvited

• Bulgarian: нахлувам (bg) (nahluvam)

Etymology 2

Verb

irrupt

1. Misspelling of erupt.