burst
/bɝst/ verb B1- To break from internal pressure. · I blew the balloon up too much, and it burst.
- To cause to break from internal pressure. · I burst the balloon when I blew it up too much.
- To separate (printer paper) at perforation lines. · I printed the report on form-feed paper, then burst the sheets.
- To enter or exit hurriedly and unexpectedly.
- To erupt; to change state suddenly as if bursting. · The flowers burst into bloom on the first day of spring.
- To produce as an effect of bursting. · to burst a hole through the wall
- To interrupt suddenly in a violent or explosive manner; to shatter.
- Of neurons: to exhibit an activation pattern where periods of rapid action potential spiking are followed by quiescent periods much longer than typical interspike intervals.
He/she/it bursts · Past burst · Past participle burst · -ing form bursting
Verb forms
- Base form
- burst
- He/she/it
- bursts
- Past
- burst
- Past participle
- burst
- -ing form
- bursting
An irregular verb: learn its past and past participle by heart.
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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So, you see, our papers were quickly written out, and certainly do not come very expensive.” This joke elicited a fresh burst of applause.
Anne, bursting into tears, rushed to the hall door, slammed it until the tins on the porch wall outside rattled in sympathy, and fled through the hall and up the stairs like a whirlwind.
The old father and Mercédès remained for some time apart, each absorbed in grief; but at length the two poor victims of the same blow raised their eyes, and with a simultaneous burst of feeling rushed into each other’s arms.
Her grief, which she had hitherto tried to restrain, now burst out in a violent fit of hysterical sobbing.
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