burst
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
military
politics
war
Etymology: From Middle English bresten, bersten, from Old English berstan, from Proto-West Germanic *brestan, from Proto-Germanic *brestaną, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰres- (“to burst, break, crack, split, separate”), enlargement of *bʰreHi- (“to snip, split”).
See also West Frisian boarste, Dutch barsten, Danish briste, Swedish brista; also Irish bris (“to break”)). More at brine. Also cognate to debris.
Inflected forms:
form: bursts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: bursting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: burst
pos: verb
tags: past
form: brast
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
form: bursted
pos: verb
tags: nonstandard
past
form: burst
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: brast
pos: verb
tags: archaic
participle
past
form: bursted
pos: verb
tags: nonstandard
participle
past
form: bursten
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
rare
form: brast
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: brust
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: bursts
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To break from internal pressure.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: I blew the balloon up too much, and it burst.
gloss: To cause to break from internal pressure.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I burst the balloon when I blew it up too much.
gloss: To cause to break by any means.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: You will not pay for the glasses you have burst?
He burst his lance against the sand below.
gloss: To separate (printer paper) at perforation lines.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I printed the report on form-feed paper, then burst the sheets.
gloss: To enter or exit hurriedly and unexpectedly.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: 1913, Mariano Azuela, The Underdogs, translated by E. MunguÍa, Jr.
Like hungry dogs who have sniffed their meat, the mob bursts in, trampling down the women who sought to bar the entrance with their bodies.
gloss: To erupt; to change state suddenly as if bursting.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The flowers burst into bloom on the first day of spring.
‘[…] I remember a lady coming to inspect St. Mary's Home where I was brought up and seeing us all in our lovely Elizabethan uniforms we were so proud of, and bursting into tears all over us because “it was wicked to dress us like charity children”. […]’.
gloss: To produce as an effect of bursting.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to burst a hole through the wall
1856, Eleanor Marx-Aveling (translator), Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary, Part III Chapter X
He entered Maromme shouting for the people of the inn, burst open the door with a thrust of his shoulder, made for a sack of oats, emptied a bottle of sweet cider into the manger, and again mounted his nag, whose feet struck fire as it dashed along.
gloss: To interrupt suddenly in a violent or explosive manner; to shatter.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The sharp report of a gun burst the silence, and a moment later the gate swung open.
gloss: An act or instance of bursting.
pos: noun
examples: The bursts of the bombs could be heard miles away.
gloss: A sudden, often intense, expression, manifestation or display.
pos: noun
examples: I read it in two bursts.
"It's my wedding-day," cried Biddy, in a burst of happiness, "and I am married to Joe!"
[…] and only at Barnet did Tappin give Empire of India a burst to bring us up to the 60 m.p.h. speed ceiling of the London area.
It was tragic, all right, but George and Hazel couldn't think about it very hard. Hazel had a perfectly average intelligence, which meant she couldn't think about anything except in short bursts.
gloss: A series of shots fired from an automatic firearm.
pos: noun
gloss: The explosion of a bomb or missile.
pos: noun
examples: a ground burst; a surface burst
gloss: A drinking spree.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
Related words: bust
bost
Derived words: aburst
bank-bursting
burstability
burstable
burst a blood vessel
burst at the seams
burster
burst forth
burst in
bursting pressure
burst into
burst into flame
burst into flames
burst into flower
burst into tears
burst out
burst out laughing
burst someone's bubble
burst up
fit to burst
forburst
reburst
unburst
afterburst
airburst
air burst
air-burst
bird burst
black and burst
budburst
burstlet
burst mode
burst noise
burstwise
burstwort
bursty
circumburst
cloud-burst
cloudburst
cloud burst
colorburst
damburst
downburst
extinction burst
fast radio burst
flavor burst
gamma-ray burst
groundburst
inburst
interburst
intraburst
last burst of fire
macroburst
mergeburst
microburst
miniburst
on the burst
outburst
overburst
postburst
preburst
radio burst
rainburst
rockburst
rotor burst
shellburst
starburst
strain burst
sunburst
superburst
thunderburst
upburst
X-ray burst
Translations:
lang: Albanian
word: përplasje
lang: Bulgarian
word: пръсвам
roman: prǎsvam
lang: Bulgarian
word: взривявам
roman: vzrivjavam
lang: Catalan
word: esclatar
lang: Catalan
word: esquerdar
lang: Dutch
word: doen barsten
lang: Finnish
word: halkaista
lang: Finnish
word: puhkaista
lang: Finnish
word: räjäyttää
lang: French
word: faire éclater
lang: French
word: rompre
lang: French
word: briser
lang: German
word: sprengen
lang: Greek
word: σκάω
roman: skáo
lang: Ancient Greek
word: διασπάω
roman: diaspáō
lang: Hungarian
word: szétpukkaszt
lang: Hungarian
word: kipukkaszt
lang: Hungarian
word: kidurrant
lang: Indonesian
word: meletus
lang: Indonesian
word: meletup
lang: Irish
word: pléasc
lang: Italian
word: far scoppiare
lang: Italian
word: strappare
lang: Italian
word: separare
lang: Latin
word: dīrumpō
lang: Low German
word: doon barsten
lang: Middle English
word: bresten
lang: Plautdietsch
word: tweirieten
lang: Portuguese
word: estourar
lang: Russian
word: разрыва́ть
roman: razryvátʹ
lang: Russian
word: разорва́ть
roman: razorvátʹ
lang: Russian
word: ло́пать
roman: lópatʹ
lang: Russian
word: ло́пнуть
roman: lópnutʹ
lang: Spanish
word: reventar
lang: Spanish
word: romper
lang: Swahili
word: kukata
lang: Swedish
word: spräcka
lang: Telugu
word: పగలగొట్టు
roman: pagalagoṭṭu
lang: Turkish
word: patlatmak
lang: Vietnamese
word: làm bể
lang: Vietnamese
word: bể
lang: Welsh
word: byrstio
lang: Welsh
word: ffrwydro