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Breaking out or bursting forth.

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  1. a. Breaking out or bursting forth.
  2. a. Attended with eruption or efflorescence, or producing it; as, an eruptive fever.
  3. a. Produced by eruption; as, eruptive rocks, such as the igneous or volcanic.
  4. n. An eruptive rock.
  5. adj. producing or characterized by eruptions
  6. adj. produced by the action of fire or intense heat
  7. adj. actively spewing out lava
  8. 1. Breaking out or bursting forth. The sudden glance Appears far south eruptive through the cloud. Thomson. 2. (Med.) Attended with eruption or efflorescence, or producing it; as, an eruptive fever. 3. (Geol.) Produced by eruption; as, eruptive rocks, such as the igneous or volcanic. An eruptive rock.
  9. Attended with eruption or efflorescence, or producing it; as,an eruptive fever.
  10. j:100 a. producing or characterized by eruptions s. actively spewing out lava