verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a fight breaks out/erupts (= suddenly starts )
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A fight broke out and one man was struck on the head.
a riot begins/breaks out/erupts
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Riots broke out last month following the verdict.
a scandal erupts (= becomes known with serious effects )
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A major scandal erupted in Washington last year.
a volcano erupts (= it sends smoke, fire, and rock into the sky )
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The volcano last erupted 50 years ago.
an argument erupts (= a big argument suddenly starts )
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A bitter argument erupted between the brothers over who should inherit the money.
protests erupt (= start suddenly )
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Massive protests erupted across the country.
violence erupts/breaks out/flares (= suddenly starts )
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Violence erupted during the demonstration.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
again
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Renewed unrest among would-be emigrants Unrest among would-be emigrants erupted again on April 26.
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Those tensions erupted again when Migden and Achtenberg ran for supervisor in 1990&038;.
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Read in studio Violence has erupted again on an estate which has been plagued by joyriders.
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At 1: 45 p. m. and 9 seconds, radio traffic erupted again .
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However, even before the war erupted again in the early 1980s, education provision in the south was inadequate.
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There was a trickle of publicity thereafter and it erupted again immediately prior to and during this appeal.
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The row erupted again when he won the Nobel last year, and the citation named the offending work.
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If these are inoperative, a volcano will not erupt again .
over
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The clash has erupted over whether the center should muddy its hands with research related to nuclear armaments.
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Something close to shipwreck fever erupted over its cargo.
suddenly
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In some parts of the world, this consumer philosophy of arms-lovers can erupt suddenly .
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Then, at about 5 p. m. a patch of water off the bow of the raft suddenly erupted .
■ NOUN
crisis
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The Chanak crisis , which erupted in late September, drove Baldwin to the newsstands of Aix for the first time.
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The natural flow of communication or of requests for assistance and advice may vary depending on where the crisis first erupts .
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When fiscal crisis erupts , they consolidate agencies and centralize control.
row
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Erupted Dexter dropped a heavy enough hint a fortnight ago by failing to back Lamb when the row erupted .
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The row erupted again when he won the Nobel last year, and the citation named the offending work.
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Then the Whitehall row erupted into the public domain.
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His defiance of calls to resign will only add fuel to the political funding row that erupted around Mr Kohl last November.
scandal
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Wednesday in the aftermath of one of the worst military scandals to erupt in public here in recent history.
surface
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Plumes rise and erupt on the surface .
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Molten rock generated by the heat and pressure associated with the zone wells up through the Earth, erupting at the surface .
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Then just be-fore the continent broke into two, Tristan erupted on to the surface , leaving a massive flood of lava.
violence
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Read in studio Violence has erupted again on an estate which has been plagued by joyriders.
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Throughout 1983, political violence continued erupting in south Florida.
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When the latest bout of violence erupted around Freetown I knew he would be there.
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The Tolbert incident had not died down before more violence erupted .
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When marchers gathered on a third day of protest, violence erupted and buildings were burned.
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S.-backed redeployment deal before further violence could erupt .
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When rioting and violence erupted in 1966, liberals in Congress were understandably disturbed, while conservatives felt vindicated.
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There, violence erupts with devastating, yet profoundly contrasting, effects.
volcano
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The volcano previously erupted in 1978, killing three people.
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A volcano erupts because a terrible creature is imprisoned in the mountain and every now and then struggles to get free.
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A neighbour retaliated on behalf of his fallen friend and in an instant a volcano of commotion had erupted in front of Hencke.
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For others, it seems like a volcano is erupting in the room.
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A period when a killer volcano threatens to erupt and in the end does not is a non-event to subsequent generations.
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So on this occasion when the priest set forth this ancient cry, it was as if a sleeping volcano erupted .
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Then some one described a bog, another a volcano about to erupt .
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If these are inoperative, a volcano will not erupt again.
war
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However, even before the war erupted again in the early 1980s, education provision in the south was inadequate.
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Our drug czar watches in impotence as shooting wars between drug gangs erupt in city after city.
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Price wars will erupt like the ones in the long-distance market.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A controversy has erupted over the price of the new weapons system.
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A fight over a game of cards had erupted in the corner of the bar.
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Gang violence can erupt for no apparent reason.
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Massive and often violent protests erupted across the country.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But every so often, something will erupt out of nowhere, break through our defences and turn the well-ordered furniture upside-down.
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But everyone erupted into giggles and bolted down the street as free of deference as the wind.
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But where the lava erupted, whole communities have been vaporized.
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Lava erupted underwater cools very rapidly with a plastic skin forming around lumps of still molten material.
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Occasionally a hot spot would erupt and an orange halo would expand into the night.
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Part of the stage erupted at 1: 26 a. m., and metal shards flew all over Centennial Olympic Park.
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This does erupt , but not to a defined time schedule.
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Though you try to keep a lid on those growing feelings, eventually they erupt , affecting those you love the most.