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Burst out

verb

Give sudden release to an expression. "'I hate you,' she burst out"

Appear suddenly. Synonym: pop out.

Erupt or intensify suddenly. Synonyms: break open, erupt, flare, flare up, irrupt. "Tempers flared at the meeting" , "The crowd irrupted into a burst of patriotism"

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"Burst out" Quotes from Famous Books

... lightly, "there are lots of things you never saw me do, Jack, which I am capable of, all the same." Whereupon Saidie burst out laughing as ...

— If Only etc. • Francis Clement Philips and Augustus Harris

... grief burst out. Lothaire screamed for his mother, and sobbed out that he should die too—he must go home. Richard stood by the bed, large silent tears rolling down his cheeks, and his ...

— The Little Duke - Richard the Fearless • Charlotte M. Yonge

... Teddy Maroon, having finished his pipe, went up to the lantern to trim the candles again. He had no sooner opened the hatch of the lantern than a dense cloud of smoke burst out. He shouted to his comrades, one of whom, Henry Hall, was old and not fit for much violent exertion; the other, James Wilkie, was a young man, but a heavy sleeper. They could not be roused as quickly as the occasion demanded. Teddy ran to the store-room for a leathern bucket, but before he could ...

— The Story of the Rock • R.M. Ballantyne

... breath, and murmured bitterly, 'Ah, you are cleverer than I. You can do everything—I can do nothing! O Miss Swancourt!' he burst out wildly, his heart swelling in his throat, 'I must tell you how I love you! All these months of my absence ...

— A Pair of Blue Eyes • Thomas Hardy

... Thomas Lawrence's fine picture of Sir Wm. Curtis, where the Court painter has thrown a poetical expression over a personage that never in his life betrayed any predilection for anything but turtle soup and gormandizing." Mr. Beckford burst out laughing. "Well," said he, "here is a picture that will perhaps please you. Holbein has certainly not been guilty of the refined flattery you complain of here; it is the portrait of Bishop Gardiner, painted at the time he was in Holland and in disgrace. What think you of it?" ...

— Recollections of the late William Beckford - of Fonthill, Wilts and Lansdown, Bath • Henry Venn Lansdown

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