irruption
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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- substance, domain or see-also
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
a sudden violent entrance; a bursting in
the recent irruption of bad manners
Types & categories
- incoming hypernym
Related & opposite
- irrupt derivation
Sense 2 noun
a sudden sharp increase in the relative numbers of a population
Types & categories
- population growth hypernym
Sense 3 noun
a sudden violent spontaneous occurrence (usually of some undesirable condition)
the outbreak of hostilities
Types & categories
- happening hypernym
- epidemic hyponym
- recrudescence hyponym
Related & opposite
- irrupt derivation
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | irrupt |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | incoming |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | population growth |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | irrupt |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | happening |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | epidemic |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | recrudescence |