Exploding and Erupt

verb

• Cause to burst with a violent release of energy.
  • usage: "We exploded the nuclear bomb"
  • synonyms: explode, detonate, blow up, set off
• Burst outward, usually with noise.
  • usage: "The champagne bottle exploded"
  • synonyms: explode, burst
• Show a violent emotional reaction.
  • usage: "The boss exploded when he heard of the resignation of the secretary"
  • synonyms: explode
• Be unleashed; emerge with violence or noise.
  • usage: "His anger exploded"
  • synonyms: explode, burst forth, break loose
• Destroy by exploding.
  • usage: "The enemy exploded the bridge"
  • synonyms: explode
• Cause to burst as a result of air pressure; of stop consonants like /p/, /t/, and /k/.
  • synonyms: explode
• Drive from the stage by noisy disapproval.
  • synonyms: explode
• Show (a theory or claim) to be baseless, or refute and make obsolete.
  • synonyms: explode
• (v.) ()
  • synonyms: detonate, explode, blow up
• Increase rapidly and in an uncontrolled manner.
  • usage: "The population of India is exploding"; "The island's rodent population irrupted"
  • synonyms: explode, irrupt

verb

• Start abruptly.
  • usage: "After 1989, peace broke out in the former East Bloc"
  • synonyms: break out
• Erupt or intensify suddenly.
  • usage: "Unrest erupted in the country"; "Tempers flared at the meeting"; "The crowd irrupted into a burst of patriotism"
  • synonyms: irrupt, flare up, flare, break open, burst out
• Start to burn or burst into flames.
  • usage: "Marsh gases ignited suddenly"; "The oily rags combusted spontaneously"
  • synonyms: ignite, catch fire, take fire, combust, conflagrate
• Break out.
  • usage: "The tooth erupted and had to be extracted"
  • synonyms: come out, break through, push through
• Become active and spew forth lava and rocks.
  • usage: "Vesuvius erupts once in a while"
  • synonyms: belch, extravasate
• Force out or release suddenly and often violently something pent up.
  • usage: "break into tears"; "erupt in anger"
  • synonyms: break, burst
• Appear on the skin.
  • usage: "A rash erupted on her arms after she had touched the exotic plant"
• Become raw or open.
  • usage: "He broke out in hives"; "My skin breaks out when I eat strawberries"; "Such boils tend to recrudesce"
  • synonyms: recrudesce, break out

• (v.t.) To cause to burst forth; to eject; as, to erupt lava.
• (v.i.) To eject something, especially lava, water, etc., as a volcano or geyser.
• (v.i.) To burst forth; to break out, as ashes from a volcano, teeth through the gums, etc.