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Eruption

The act of breaking out or bursting forth; as: (a) A violent throwing out of flames, lava, etc., as from a volcano of a fissure in the earth's crust. (b) A sudden and overwhelming hostile movement of armed men from one country to another. Milton. (c) A violent commotion.

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Action 76% connected

A process or condition of acting or moving, as opposed to rest; the doing of something; exertion of power or force, as when one body acts on another;…

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Activeness 76% connected

The quality of being active; nimbleness; quickness of motion; activity.

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Activity 76% connected

The state or quality of being active; nimbleness; agility; vigorous action or operation; energy; active force; as, an increasing variety of human act…

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Discharge 76% connected

To relieve of a charge, load, or burden; to empty of a load or cargo; to unburden; to unload; as, to discharge a vessel.

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Egress 76% connected

The act of going out or leaving, or the power to leave; departure.

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Emergence 76% connected

The act of rising out of a fluid, or coming forth from envelopment or concealment, or of rising into view; sudden uprisal or appearance.

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Happening 76% connected

of Happen

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Issue 76% connected

The act of passing or flowing out; a moving out from any inclosed place; egress; as, the issue of water from a pipe, of blood from a wound, of air fr…

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Noise 76% connected

Sound of any kind.

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Occurrence 76% connected

A coming or happening; as, the occurence of a railway collision.

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Occurrent 76% connected

Occurring or happening; hence, incidental; accidental.

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Symptom 76% connected

Any affection which accompanies disease; a perceptible change in the body or its functions, which indicates disease, or the kind or phases of disease…

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Efflorescence 76% connected

Flowering, or state of flowering; the blooming of flowers; blowth.

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Epidemic 76% connected

Alt. of Epidemical

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Exanthem 76% connected

Same as Exanthema.

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Exanthema 76% connected

An efflorescence or discoloration of the skin; an eruption or breaking out, as in measles, smallpox, scarlatina, and the like diseases; -- sometimes…

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Rash 76% connected

To pull off or pluck violently.

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Recrudescence 76% connected

Alt. of Recrudescency

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Roseola 76% connected

A rose-colored efflorescence upon the skin, occurring in circumscribed patches of little or no elevation and often alternately fading and reviving; a…

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Water hammer 76% connected

A vessel partly filled with water, exhausted of air, and hermetically sealed. When reversed or shaken, the water being unimpeded by air, strikes the…

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Blare 74% connected

To sound loudly and somewhat harshly.

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Blare 74% connected

To sound loudly and somewhat harshly.

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Spew 74% connected

To eject from the stomach; to vomit.

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Spew 74% connected

To eject from the stomach; to vomit.

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Synonym 8

Bam 92% connected

An imposition; a cheat; a hoax.

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Bang 92% connected

To beat, as with a club or cudgel; to treat with violence; to handle roughly.

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Blast 92% connected

A violent gust of wind.

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Clap 92% connected

To strike; to slap; to strike, or strike together, with a quick motion, so, as to make a sharp noise; as, to clap one's hands; a clapping of wings.

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Eructation 92% connected

The act of belching wind from the stomach; a belch.

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Extravasation 92% connected

The act of forcing or letting out of its proper vessels or ducts, as a fluid; effusion; as, an extravasation of blood after a rupture of the vessels.

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Irruption 92% connected

A bursting in; a sudden, violent rushing into a place; as, irruptions of the sea.

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Outbreak 92% connected

A bursting forth; eruption; insurrection.

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