eruption
a sudden bursting out
Roots
- e- / ex-: out, out of, away, or forth
- rump / rupt: break, burst, or break apart
Other words with the rump / rupt root
- abrupt: sudden or unexpectedly broken off
- corrupt: dishonest or spoiled by moral damage
- corruption: dishonesty or moral decay in a system
- disrupt: to interrupt or throw into disorder
- disruption: break in order or normal flow
- erupt: to burst out suddenly
- interrupt: to break into or stop the flow of something
Rupt gives break. An eruption is pressure breaking out suddenly.
The eruption sent ash across the island and turned noon into twilight.
Eruption is not only volcanoes. Anger, laughter, applause, disease, and conflict can all break out after pressure has been building under the surface.