Definitions for irruption

irruption ir·rup·tion

Spelling: [ih-ruhp-shuh n]
IPA: /ɪˈrʌp ʃən/

Irruption is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 205 anagrams from letters in irruption (iinoprrtu).

Definitions for irruption

noun

  1. a breaking or bursting in; a violent incursion or invasion.
  2. Ecology. a sudden increase in an animal population.

Origin of irruption

1570-80; Latin irruptiōn- (stem of irruptiō), equivalent to irrupt(us), past participle of irrumpere to burst into (see ir-1, rupture

Examples for irruption

To this irruption succeeded an interval of peace—the calm before the storm.

There has been more than one irruption into the country from the natives to the northward.

We should be better prepared for the irruption of new characters.

And there was an irruption from the house on to the terrace.

There was no irruption of the newly-weds to complicate matters.

Then followed the revolution with the irruption of Cromwell's followers.

With angry voice the Satrap demanded the cause of this irruption.

You may choose where the irruption shall occur; there must be a bursting-in at some point.

Mrs. John was not always sure that she liked this irruption into her house.

We picture the vision, then, as an irruption of hypnosis into the visual sphere.

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