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Burst
BURST, v.i. pret. and pp. burst. The old participle bursten is nearly obsolete.
1. To fly or break open with force, or with sudden violence; to suffer a violent disruption. The peculiar force of this word is, in expressing a sudden rupture, with violence, or expansion, or both. Hence it is generally used to signify the sudden rupture of a thing by internal force,and a liberation from confinement; as, to burst from a prison; the heart bursts with grief.
2. To break away; to spring from; as, to burst from the arms.
3. To come or fall upon suddenly or with violence; to rush upon unexpectedly; as, a sound bursts upon our ears.
4. To issue suddenly, or to come from a hidden or retired place into more open view; as, a river bursts from a valley; a spring bursts from the earth.
5. To break forth into action suddenly; as, to burst into tears.
6. To break or rush in with violence; as, to burst into a house or a room.
It is often followed by an intensive particle; as, out, forth, away, from, or asunder.
BURST, v.t. To break or rend by force or violence; to open suddenly; as, to burst a chain or a door; to burst a cannon.
BURST, n. A sudden disruption; a violent rending; more appropriately, a sudden explosion or shooting forth; as a burst of thunder; a burst of applause, a burst of passion.
1. A rupture, a hernia, or the unnatural protrusion of the contents of the abdomen.
BURST, or BURST'EN, pp. or a. Affected with a rupture or hernia.
BURST, pp. Opened or rent asunder by violence.
burst appears in definitions for these words:
Balloon Bigswoln Blow Bomb Botetto Bounce Brast Break Burst Burster Candle-bomb Chuckle Clack Clap Contraction Coruscation Crack Crepance Crepane Crepitate Crepitation Crepuscle Crepuscule Crevice Debacle Decrepitate Decrepitating Diruption Dispart Disparting Displode Disploding Disrupt Disruption Disrupture Dissever Dissilient Dissilition Eclat Eloquence Eructation Erupt Eruption Eruptive Explode Exploding Explosion Explosive Flaming Flash Flashing Flaw Fly Flying Fracture Fracturing Fragor Fulminate Fuzzball Grenade Gust Hemorrhagy Irruption Lava Lighten Loment Outbreak Outbreaking Perish Plaint Proruption Puke Push Rent Rift Rifting Riven Rock Rocket Ruption Rupture Ruptured Rupturing Safety-valve Sandal-wood Shatter Shout Spathe Split Splitting Spring Squib Squirter Start Stave Stigma Thunder-clap Volley Volleyed Wrest
Balloon Bigswoln Blow Bomb Botetto Bounce Brast Break Burst Burster Candle-bomb Chuckle Clack Clap Contraction Coruscation Crack Crepance Crepane Crepitate Crepitation Crepuscle Crepuscule Crevice Debacle Decrepitate Decrepitating Diruption Dispart Disparting Displode Disploding Disrupt Disruption Disrupture Dissever Dissilient Dissilition Eclat Eloquence Eructation Erupt Eruption Eruptive Explode Exploding Explosion Explosive Flaming Flash Flashing Flaw Fly Flying Fracture Fracturing Fragor Fulminate Fuzzball Grenade Gust Hemorrhagy Irruption Lava Lighten Loment Outbreak Outbreaking Perish Plaint Proruption Puke Push Rent Rift Rifting Riven Rock Rocket Ruption Rupture Ruptured Rupturing Safety-valve Sandal-wood Shatter Shout Spathe Split Splitting Spring Squib Squirter Start Stave Stigma Thunder-clap Volley Volleyed Wrest
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