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Burst   /bərst/   Listen
Burst

verb
(past & past part. burst; pres. part. bursting; the past participle bursten is obsolete)
1.
Come open suddenly and violently, as if from internal pressure.  Synonyms: break open, split.
2.
Force out or release suddenly and often violently something pent up.  Synonyms: break, erupt.  "Erupt in anger"
3.
Burst outward, usually with noise.  Synonym: explode.
4.
Move suddenly, energetically, or violently.
5.
Be in a state of movement or action.  Synonyms: abound, bristle.  "The garden bristled with toddlers"
6.
Emerge suddenly.
7.
Cause to burst.  Synonym: collapse.
8.
Break open or apart suddenly and forcefully.  Synonym: bust.
noun
1.
The act of exploding or bursting.  Synonym: explosion.  "The burst of an atom bomb creates enormous radiation aloft"
2.
Rapid simultaneous discharge of firearms.  Synonyms: fusillade, salvo, volley.
3.
A sudden flurry of activity (often for no obvious reason).  Synonym: fit.  "A fit of housecleaning"
4.
A sudden intense happening.  Synonyms: flare-up, outburst.  "A burst of lightning"



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"Burst" Quotes from Famous Books



... that the old school master made to Marget that time in "Beside the Bonny Briar Bush" when he came to tell her that she had a "laddie of parts"? And wasn't it still more beautiful when he came later, rugged old Scotchman that he was, to burst into tears of wild joy over the good news he brought her that her son had won first prize in ...
— Sermons on Biblical Characters • Clovis G. Chappell
... only the end of the handle. The people in the transport clapped their hands, and laughed at his ridiculous figure; and when some one threw a stone, which fell on the deck at his feet, and he quitted his hold of the scythe-spear, the crew of his own trireme also burst out laughing; they could not refrain when they beheld the weapon waving in the air, suspended from the transport. Now I do not deny that there may be something in such an art, as Nicias asserts, but I tell you my ...
— Laches • Plato
... the upshot, which was that Mr. Pittinger thought he might raise money to run the factory if Eddie would give him the control and drop out. Eddie concluded, with a burst of rapture: "I'm so tickled I wisht I could telegraft poor Uncle Loren that everything's ...
— In a Little Town • Rupert Hughes
... gloves in token of adieu, and retreated once more into the excited obscurity of the wings, where his manager was trembling like an aspen, in the midst of a perspiring company. The lights were turned down. The orchestra burst into a tuneful jig, and the lingering audience ...
— Flames • Robert Smythe Hichens
... been chewed and swallowed by the trench; and what is left of it has been invaded by the earth and the grass, and mingled with the fields in the fullness of time. At some places in the trench—there, where a sandbag has burst and left only a muddy cell—you may see again on the level of your eyes the stony ballast of the ex-road, cut to the quick, or even the roots of the bordering trees that have been cut down to embody in the trench wall. The latter is as slashed and uneven as if it were a wave of earth ...
— Under Fire - The Story of a Squad • Henri Barbusse


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