irruption

Nouns

  • (n) a sudden violent entrance; a bursting in
    • the recent irruption of bad manners
  • (n) a sudden sharp increase in the relative numbers of a population
  • (n) a sudden violent spontaneous occurrence (usually of some undesirable condition)
    • the outbreak of hostilities
    outbreak, eruption,

Synonyms

outbreak eruption

Words of close approximity

irruptive