BURST INTO

  

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BURST INTO

Synonyms within Context: BURST INTO

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Amusement

Smile, simper, smirk; grin, grin like a Cheshire cat; mock, laugh in one's sleeve; laugh, laugh outright; giggle, titter, crow, snicker, chuckle, cackle; burst out, burst into a fit of laughter; shout, split, roar.

Excitability

Lose one's temper; break out, burst out, fly out; go off, fly off, fly off at a tangent, fly off the handle, lose one's cool; explode, flare up, flame up, fire up, burst into a flame, take fire, fire, burn; boil, boil over; foam, fume, rage, rave, rant, tear; go wild, run wild, run mad, go into hysterics; run riot, run amuck; battre la campagne, faire le diable a quatre, play the deuce.

Ingress

Verb: have the entree; enter; go into, go in, come into, come in, pour into, pour in, flow into, flow in, creep into, creep in, slip into, slip in, pop into, pop in, break into, break in, burst into, burst in; set foot on; ingress; burst in upon, break in upon; invade, intrude; insinuate itself; interpenetrate, penetrate; infiltrate; find one's way into, wriggle into, worm oneself into.

Lamentation

Cry, weep, sob, greet, blubber, pipe, snivel, bibber, whimper, pule; pipe one's eye; drop tears, shed tears, drop a tear, shed a tear; melt into tears, burst into tears; fondre en larmes; cry oneself blind, cry one's eyes out; yammer.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: BURST INTO

English words defined with "BURST INTO": burstignescent, IntoTo flare up, To fly out. (references)
Specialty definitions using "BURST INTO": code policeGentle ShepherdPrometheans. (references)

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Modern Usage: BURST INTO

DomainUsage

Screenplays

I was sound asleep, and they burst into my room and turned everything upside down (Clan des Siciliens, Le; writing credit: José Giovanni; Auguste Le Breton)

Lyrics

Gonna burst into flame (Burning Down The House; performing artist: Talking Heads)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Use in Literature: BURST INTO

TitleAuthorQuote

A Christmas Carol

Dickens, Charles

After a short period of blank astonishment, in which the old man with the pipe had joined them, they all three burst into a laugh

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

And he burst into a laugh

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Spoken Usage: BURST INTO

SpeakerPhrase(s)

Art Linkletter

Time heals it. And for the first year or two, you burst into tears at times when you run into a reminder of it, and then the Lord kind of heals you.

Dennis Miller

I think there is something wrong when you hear a cell phone ring in public and thirty people start patting themselves down like they've just burst into flame.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Expressions: BURST INTO

Expressions using "BURST INTO": burst into a blaze burst into a passion of tears burst into angry words burst into blossom burst into bud burst into flame burst into flames burst into laughter burst into song burst into tears. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: BURST INTO

Language Translations for "BURST INTO"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

ia plas të qarë (burst into tears). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

разцъфвам (blossom, burst into blossom). (various references)

   

Czech

  

vtrhnout do, vřítit se do. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

in vlammen uitbarsten (burst into flames). (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

ekflagri (burst into flames). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

syttyä (be kindled, blaze up, break out, burst into flames, catch fire, ignite, kindle, light, take fire), purskahtaa nauruun (burst into laughter), purskahtaa itkuun (burst into tears), puhjeta lehteen (burst into leaf), puhjeta kukkaan (burst into blossom), puhjeta ilmiliekkiin (burst into flame, flare up), puhjeta (blossom, break out, burst, burst into flower, come out, open), leimahtaa ilmituleen (blaze up, burst into flame, flare up), katkeruus purkautui sanoiksi (bitterness burst into words). (various references)

   

French

  

faire irruption dans. (various references)

   

German

  

anschlagen (aim, bark, bump, cast on, chip, estimate, fix on, give tongue, hit, knock, nail on, post, put up, strike, take effect, to bump, touch). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

ξεσπώ (break out, burst, erupt), ορμώ (bolt, dart, dash, hurdle, hurtle, pour, rush, rush at, slat). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

beront (barge into, invade, rush into, to bulge in, to flounce in, to invade, to rush into, to spring in). (various references)

   

Italian

  

irrompere (break into, burst). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

萌え立つ (to burst into leaf, to sprout), 燃え上がる (to burst into flames, to flare up), 笑い出す (to burst into laughter), 噴き出す (to burst into laughter, to gush out, to spout, to spurt), 泣き出す  (to burst into tears, to burst out crying), 泣き出す (to be moved to tears, to begin to cry, to burst into tears, to burst out crying), 吹き出す (to burst into laughter, to gush out, to spout, to spurt), 彗星のように現れる (to become famous overnight, to burst into fame), 弾ける様に笑う (to burst into laughter). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

すいせいのようにあらわれる (to become famous overnight, to burst into fame), なき す (to be moved to tears, to begin to cry, to burst into tears, to burst out crying), ふき す (to burst into laughter, to gush out, to spout, to spurt), わらい す (to burst into laughter), もえたつ (to blaze up, to burn up, to burst into leaf, to sprout), もえあがる (to burst into flames, to flare up), はじけるようにわらう (to burst into laughter). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

urstbay intoay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

rir (burst into laughter, laugh), chorar (bemoan, bewail, burst into tears, cry, ding, grizzle, mewl, mourn, mule, pule, scandalize, wail, weep). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

se repezi (dart, fling, flounce, fly at, hurl oneself, make a dash at smth., make for, plough into, rush, start, swoop upon), izbucni (break forth, break out, burst, burst out, erupt, flare, fling, gush, spurt). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

разражаться (break out, burst out). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

buknuti (blaze, burst, erupt, flame out, flare, flare up), briznuti (squirt), prsnuti (burst, burst out, spatter, splash), planuti (blaze, break out, burst in, fire up, flare, flare up, flash). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

brista i tårar (burst into tears), brista i gråt (burst into tears). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

boşanmak (be loosed, burst, burst into tears, divorce, obtain a divorce), tomurcuklanmak (bud, burgeon, burst into bud, gemmate, proliferate, pullulate), kahkahayı basmak (break forth, burst into laughter, go off, guffaw, scream with laughter), kahkahaya boğulmak (burst into laughter), kahkaha atmak (burst into laughter, cachinnate, guggle, howl, raise a laugh), gülmekten kırılmak (be in stitches, burst into laughter, explode with laughter, fold up with laughter, roll in the aisles, shriek with laughter), göz yaşlarına boğulmak (burst into tears, melt into tears), şarkıya başlamak (break into song, burst into song, pipe up, strike up a song). (various references)

   

Turkmen 

  

kьrsemek. (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

спалахнути (blaze up, break out, burst into flame, flame up, outblaze). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: BURST INTO

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "b-i-n-o-r-s-t-t-u"

-2 letters: bistort, burtons, buttons, inburst, intorts, intrust, nitrous, tourist, tritons, turbits, turbots.

-3 letters: bionts, bistro, bourns, britts, bruins, bruits, brunts, burins, burton, button, intort, intros, nitros, orbits, outsin, outsit, robins, robust, rutins, stotin, strunt, subito, suborn, suitor, triton, trouts, tubist, turbit, turbos, turbot, tutors.

-4 letters: bints, biont, bison, bitts, bonus, borts, bosun, botts, bourn.

 Words containing the letters "b-i-n-o-r-s-t-t-u"
 

+2 letters: contributes, obstructing, obstruction, obturations, subtraction.

 

+3 letters: attributions, contributors, distribution, masturbation, nimbostratus, obscurantist, obstructions, retributions, subtractions, tribulations.

 

+4 letters: antiscorbutic, constructible, contributions, distributions, masturbations, obscurantists, perturbations, subsaturation, toothbrushing.

 

+5 letters: antiscorbutics, brutalizations, distributional, misattribution, obstructionism, obstructionist, reattributions, redistribution, subcontracting, subsaturations, toothbrushings.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Usage: Modern
3. Quotations: Fiction
4. Quotations: Spoken
5. Expressions
6. Translations: Modern
7. Anagrams
8. Bibliography


  

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