irruption (n.)

  1. a sudden violent entrance; a bursting in; the recent irruption of bad manners'

  2. a sudden sharp increase in the relative numbers of a population

  3. a sudden violent spontaneous occurrence (usually of some undesirable condition); the outbreak of hostilities

    [ Syn: outbreak , eruption ]

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