Definitions for irruptions

irruptions ir·rup·tion

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

Irruptions is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 435 anagrams from letters in irruptions (iinoprrstu).

Definitions for irruptions

noun

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

Origin of irruptions

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

Examples for irruptions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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