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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 bursting; the past participle bursten is obsolete)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



... slave society tends directly to develop. It may be kept carefully out of sight, but there it lurks, in the hardened hearts of men, like water within rocks. It is forever gushing up in little springs of despotism. Once it burst forth in a vast convulsive flood, and that ...
— Cudjo's Cave • J. T. Trowbridge
... order that she should immediately be set on fire. Tom, who had been anticipating the result, was very much pleased when the gunner returned with Jack's orders for her destruction. Light was set to her fore and aft, and as the boats pulled away, flames burst out from all directions, the glare, as they rose higher, extending to a far distance ...
— The Three Commanders • W.H.G. Kingston
... the housekeeper was just remarking, in a fat, comfortable voice, when Richards, the chauffeur, burst ...
— Malcolm Sage, Detective • Herbert George Jenkins
... not count. He had not quitted his seat the whole evening, and still went on persistently drinking with the assistant-surgeon, an exceedingly stout man, with a face scarred by students' fights. The scars were glowing now as if they would burst. ...
— 'Jena' or 'Sedan'? • Franz Beyerlein
... me," said Mr. Pericles. "We shall not burst out about zis Riga man. He is a villain,—very well. Say it. He is a villain,—say so. And stop. Because" (and up went the Greek's forefinger), "we must not have a scandal, in ze fairst place. We ...
— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith


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