Usually means: Explodes or bursts forth suddenly.
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  1. erupts: Merriam-Webster
  2. erupts: Collins English Dictionary
  3. erupts: Vocabulary.com
  4. Erupts, erupts: Wordnik
  5. erupts: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. erupts: Wiktionary
  7. erupts: Dictionary.com
  8. erupts: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. erupts: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. erupts: Medical dictionary

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  1. erupts: Idioms

(Note: See erupt as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (erupt)

verb:  (intransitive) To eject something violently (such as lava or water, as from a volcano or geyser).
verb:  (intransitive) To burst forth; to break out.
verb:  (intransitive, figuratively) To spontaneously release pressure or tension.
verb:  (intransitive, biology) (Of birds, insects, etc.) To suddenly appear in a certain region in large numbers.
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