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burst out

verb
  1. To appear suddenly from within something else. (intransitive)
  2. To display sudden powerful emotion. (intransitive)
  3. To speak emotionally or suddenly (intransitive)
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Her grief, which she had hitherto tried to restrain, now burst out in a violent fit of hysterical sobbing.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 35 · C1
When the young Prince saw this, his grief at being thus confined burst out afresh, and, standing near the lion, he said: “O you most detestable of animals!
Three Hundred Aesop's Fables, p. 99 · B2
Holmes tore it open and burst out laughing.
Sherlock Holmes: The Bruce-Partington Plans, p. 2 · B2
Sherlock Holmes and I surveyed this curt announcement and the rueful face behind it, until the comical side of the affair so completely overtopped every other consideration that we both burst out into a roar of laughter.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, p. 15 · B2

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