Irruo, irruis, irrui, irrutum, pen. corr. irruere. Plaut.To turme hastily or sutiously into, or upon a thing: to tush in: to fall or cast in.Vide ne ille huc prorsus se irruat. Ter. See that he rushe not in hither among vs.Irruere in mediam aciem.Cic.To rush or run biolently into the middle of the armie.Irruere & impetum perferre in aliquem.Cic.Irruere in odium alicuius. Ci. To cast himself wilfully with out considetation into ones batted and displeasure.Irruere in malum.Cic.To run headlong into misthife.Irruimus ferro.Virg.We run on them with weapons.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
irrŭo (inr-), rŭi, 3, v. n. [in-ruo], to rush or force one's way into, invade, press into, make an attack upon.I.Lit.: ilico equites jubet dexterā inruere, Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 88 (dub.; Ussing, inducere): quam mox inruimus?Ter. Eun. 4, 7, 18: irruimus ferro, Verg. A. 3, 222: in aedis alienas, Ter. Ad. 1, 2, 8: in mediam aciem, Cic. Fin. 2, 19, 61: in aliquem, id. Dom. 45: super collum alicujus,
to embrace eagerly
, Vulg. Gen. 46, 29: super gladium suum, id. 1 Par. 10, 4.— (b). With dat.: flammis, Claud. Cons. Mall. Theod. 194.—(g). With acc.: proximos agros, Front. 1, 5, 16: Rhodopen, Claud. IV. Cons. Hon. 50: Alpes, id. Epigr. 77, 5: has terras, of waters, Amm. 17, 13, 4.—(d). With se: vide ne ille huc prorsus se irruat, Ter. Ad. 4, 2, 11.—II.Trop., to force one's way into, rush into, enter eagerly into or upon, seize upon: in alienas possessiones, Cic. de Or. 1, 10, 41: verecunda debet esse translatio, ut deducta esse in alienum locum, non irruisse videatur, id. ib. 3, 41, 165: in odium alicujus et offensionem,
to incur
, id. Verr. 1, 12, 35: inruente in se Spiritu Dei, Vulg. Num. 24, 2: permulta sunt circumspicienda, ne quid offendas, ne quo irruas,
make a hasty blunder in speaking
, Cic. de Or. 2, 74, 301.—(b). With dat.: cladibus, Luc. 7, 60.