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Irrupt

verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To break into. transitive
  2. 2
    Misspelling of erupt. alt-of, misspelling
  3. 3
    increase rapidly and in an uncontrolled manner wordnet
  4. 4
    To enter forcibly or uninvited. intransitive

    "Above all, though, I look back into a modernity where the animation of the object world, the voice of things, or the indistinction of object and subject does not constitute a general (or generalizable, theorizable) condition but irrupts as a discrete event, the aesthetic effects of which range from the uncanny to the sublime."

  5. 5
    erupt or intensify suddenly wordnet
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  1. 6
    To rapidly increase or intensify. intransitive
  2. 7
    enter uninvited wordnet

Etymology

From Latin irruptus, past participle of irrumpō.

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