burst upon

1. 1.

   spring suddenly

   “He burst upon our conversation”

   Synonymsburst in on

   Broaderinterrupt

Questions about burst upon

What does burst upon mean?

burst upon means "spring suddenly".

What is another word for burst upon?

Close synonyms include burst in on. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is burst upon a common word?

burst upon is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.