irrupt
/ɪˈrʌpt
/verb [no object]
1Enter somewhere forcibly or suddenly: absurdities continually irrupt into the narrative...
- Derrida irrupted into Western philosophy from the repressed margin of the imperial West.
- Neither the Great Depression nor the Second World War dampened the impetus with which Argentina irrupted into the twentieth century.
- War irrupts convulsively into the history of civilizations as a loss of control, partially managed by competing political interests.
1.1(Of a bird or other animal) migrate into an area in abnormally large numbers.After protests by many, the horticultural industry developed a sterile hybrid with the same luscious cadmium blossoms but no ability to irrupt....
- But climate change, restoration, biotechnology, and irrupting species have forced ecologists to consider what was, in order to imagine what ought to be.
- My neighbors in Tucson, for instance, planted South African sweet gum that irrupted into the Sonoran desert and covered cactus and other indigenous shrubs.
Derivatives
irruption
/ noun ...- This object, aligned with Evil, is a thing of desire for us, an outlet for the irruption of Evil.
- He nailed me for calling it a migration as opposed to an irruption.
- They undergo almost cyclical irruptions across portions of their winter range, which may be associated with conifer seed crops.
irruptive
- Such a temporal event is something irruptive and unpredictable, both in its causes and effects.
- The rest of their career - thirteen years! - played out in the shadow of its irruptive beginning.
- Snowy Owls are migratory, nomadic, and irruptive.
Origin
Mid 19th century: (earlier (mid 16th century) as irruption) from Latin irrupt- 'broken into', from the verb irrumpere, from in- 'into' + rumpere 'break'.