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say it: burst
burst is a verb and noun meaning "come open suddenly and violently, as if from internal pressure". It is pronounced /ˈbɝst/ — burst. It carries 12 recorded senses.
“break into tears”
“erupt in anger”
burst outward, usually with noise
“The champagne bottle exploded”
move suddenly, energetically, or violently
“He burst out of the house into the cool night”
the act of exploding or bursting
“the explosion of the firecrackers awoke the children”
“the burst of an atom bomb creates enormous radiation aloft”
a sudden flurry of activity (often for no obvious reason)
“a burst of applause”
“a fit of housecleaning”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for burst come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.