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Burst forth   /bərst fɔrθ/   Listen
Burst forth

verb
1.
Jump out from a hiding place and surprise (someone).  Synonyms: leap out, rush out, sally out.
2.
Be unleashed; emerge with violence or noise.  Synonyms: break loose, explode.
3.
Come into or as if into flower.  Synonym: effloresce.






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"Burst forth" Quotes from Famous Books



... mother's are," returned Eunice easily. "You seem so cheerful that I suppose yours are quite the same, and you're just keeping them for a surprise." She laughed provokingly, and Dan burst forth again— ...
— Henry James, Jr. • William Dean Howells

... with his eyes, and stretched forth his hands towards the open door; but the door closed. All his emotion then burst forth; he cast himself on the ground, weeping bitterly, and asking himself what crime he had committed ...
— The Count of Monte Cristo • Alexandre Dumas, Pere

... frightened at her own temerity after that emphatic contradiction had burst forth. But anger at Timothy had over-ridden discretion, with that question concerning him and Miss Eliza's obvious inclination to side with him; last night's events were still clear in Arethusa's mind, and Miss Eliza had been most unfair in her viewpoint on that ...
— The Heart of Arethusa • Francis Barton Fox

... he supposes the ova to enter the sack; this, after repeated and most careful examinations, I venture to affirm does not exist; on the contrary, I have every reason to believe that the ova enter the sack in the following curious manner. Immediately before one of the periods of exuviation, the ova burst forth from the the ovarian tubes in the peduncle and round the sack, and, carried along the open circulatory channels, are collected (by means unknown to me) beneath the chitine-tunic of the sack, in the corium, which is at this ...
— A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia (Volume 1 of 2) - The Lepadidae; or, Pedunculated Cirripedes • Charles Darwin

... grossly wrong on a child's face, whether it was some thought of his own pampered little daughter, whether it was that curious appeal Lydia always made to men, or a combination of all, that moved Marshall, he could not have told. But suddenly he burst forth. ...
— Lydia of the Pines • Honore Willsie Morrow


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