Definitions for burst

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IPA: /bɜrst/

Burst is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 59 anagrams from letters in burst (brstu).

Definitions for burst

noun

1. an act or instance of bursting.
2. a sudden, intense display, as of activity, energy, or effort:
3. a sudden expression or manifestation, as of emotion:
4. a sudden and violent issuing forth:
5. Military. the explosion of a projectile, especially in a specified place: a rapid sequence of shots fired by one pull on the trigger of an automatic weapon:
6. the result of bursting; breach; gap:
7. a sudden appearance or opening to view.

Idioms

1. burst at the seams, to be filled to or beyond normal capacity:

verb (used with object)

1. to cause to break or break open suddenly and violently:
2. to cause or suffer the rupture of:
3. to separate (the parts of a multipart stationery form consisting of interleaved paper and carbon paper).

verb (used without object)

1. to break, break open, or fly apart with sudden violence:
2. to issue forth suddenly and forcibly, as from confinement or through an obstacle:
3. to give sudden expression to or as if to emotion:
4. to be extremely full, as if ready to break open:
5. to appear suddenly; become visible, audible, evident, etc., all at once:

Origin of burst

before 1000; Middle English bersten, bursten, Old English berstan (past. plural burston), cognate with Old High German brestan (German bersten), Old Norse bresta; akin to Examples for burst

And, as a result, an interesting and important text has burst out of the archives and into public consciousness.

"Now you are angry with me," exclaimed the sensitive maiden; and she burst into tears.

Just think a moment: this my first burst from the dungeon-land of London for a whole year!

Within a few swipes, I was already feeling that burst of romantic optimism you need the first day of the (Christian) new year.

He dashed the glass from him, and burst into tears which he did not even try to conceal.

And bonus points for the school bus that burst into flames with the comic timing of a Simpsons gag.

The gunman then burst from the restaurant and fled down the street with the other man.

A burst of machine-gun fire blew off the wall of a nearby building—the commandos were approaching.

Although my heart was ready to burst, yet could I neither weep nor speak.

Then, indeed, she had burst upon him with an impetuous despair that had alarmed him.