irruption
[ ih-ruhp-shuhn ]
noun
a breaking or bursting in; a violent incursion or invasion.
Ecology. a sudden increase in an animal population.
Origin of irruption
1Words that may be confused with irruption
- eruption, irruption
Words Nearby irruption
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How to use irruption in a sentence
He made but one fierce and rapid irruption into the neighborhood of the "red sea," and returned sick and shuddering therefrom.
Came a great irruption of new social, religious, and political ideas into the general European mind.
The Outline of History: Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind | Herbert George WellsBy the retreat of Torstensohn, the Emperor was relieved from all fears of an irruption on the side of Bohemia.
The Thirty Years War, Complete | Friedrich SchillerThe irruption of Bennie and Zephyr threatened disaster even to this forlorn hope.
Blue Goose | Frank Lewis NasonTamerlane made his irruption through this plain when he took and destroyed so many cities.
Early Travels in Palestine | Arculf et al.
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