Emotions
Synonyms for erupt
The synonym for erupt recorded in this bank is break, in the sense "force out or release suddenly and often violently something pent up". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.
The synonym for erupt
- breakverb, in the sense "force out or release suddenly and often violently something pent up"
A single pair, which is what a single sense earns. Words further down the page are near misses and are not synonyms for erupt.
force out or release suddenly and often violently something pent up
Erupt in anger.
The true synonym
break
Same sentence, swapped: Break in anger.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles the game puts on screen for this sense, and the note above says why the closest of them fails. None is a synonym for erupt in the sentence quoted.
- belch
- ignite
- lament
Where erupt turns up in the game
erupt is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 3, Ridgeline. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in four other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzles where erupt is the trap
- burstverb, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is bust, in the sense "break open or apart suddenly and forcefully", and erupt is one of the three tiles that lose.
- ebbverb, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is wane, in the sense "to gradually decrease or fade over time", so erupt is there to be ruled out.
- gestateverb, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is percolate, in the sense "to develop gradually over an extended period, especially in the mind", with erupt sitting one tile away.
- igniteverb, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is light, in the sense "cause to start burning", and erupt is one of the three tiles that lose.
Play erupt
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so erupt reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Closest first: other emotions words at Ridgeline, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
A reason under every answer, not just a right answer
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. erupt carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.