irruption
- noun
- /ɪˈrʌpʃən/
:
irrupción
- The irruption of the wild boar into the farmer's field caused significant damage to his crops.
Examples
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His speech marks the sudden irruption of an external world into Random's literal dreaming and his dream of easy success.
Academic text (1990) -
Sandy isn't an irruption of abnormality into a sane and sensible world; it is a reminder of what the world really is like.
Blog text (5) -
These irruptions will present us with multiple opportunities for calling into question the plans that we have made and the assumptions they are based on.
Blog text (22) -
The space of epic is taken over by the unexpected irruption of the lyric impulse into the text.
Academic text (1998) -
He reads it as an example of how, paradoxically, the irruption of the fantastic into a story makes reality more real.
Academic text (1993) -
Now I think that this way of thinking of time was prepared for us by the Christian notion of the irruption into time of divinity, that is, by the Incarnation, and by the promise of a Second Coming and a Day of Judgment and a New Kingdom.
Blog text (1) -
We see something like a drama of castration, with the anxious son as seen by the father, and the joyous father as seen by the son—visions produced, however, by one and the same subject, and embraced as the aesthetic logic allowing the sudden irruption of a multiplicity of graphic styles.
Academic text (2003) -
The sudden irruption of tourists overwhelmed the small town during the summer festival.
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After years of peace, the city faced an unexpected irruption of violence that caught everyone off guard.
Synonyms
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4.2
A sudden large group of animals or people entering a place
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7.6
A sudden violent attack, often by soldiers or severe weather
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8.0
Entry into a place that is sudden and unwanted, often by many people or things
Antonyms
How Violent
Surface Forms
Morphology
irruption = irrupt (semi-transparent) = ir + rupt + ion
The noun is formed by suffixation from the verb 'irrupt' (in- assimilated to 'ir-') meaning 'burst in', but 'irrupt' and the root 'rupt' are low-frequency/bound elements so many learners may not immediately recognize the components.
Etymology
Irruption comes from the Latin parts in- 'into' and rupt 'to break', the same root in rupture and erupt. So an irruption is like 'breaking into' a place suddenly, which is why it means a sudden, often violent, entry.