erupting
- 1Present participle of erupt.
Lava was erupting from the crater all through the night.
Laughter was erupting across the room before she even finished the joke.
Note
One -ing spelling doing two jobs. As a participle it builds the progressive (lava was erupting) or modifies a noun (an erupting geyser). As a gerund it names the event (after days of erupting). Erupt never takes a direct object, so what comes out is introduced with from: erupting from the crater. The figurative uses carry over unchanged: tempers, laughter, or a swarm of insects suddenly erupting across a region.
erupting is a form of erupt
erupt, verb: To throw out lava, ash, or water with violent force, as a volcano or geyser does. Full entry
- Spelling
- erupt → erupting: add -ing
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