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| Context | Synonyms 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. | |
Crosswords: BURST INTO |
| English words defined with "BURST INTO": burst ♦ ignescent, Into ♦ To flare up, To fly out. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "BURST INTO": code police ♦ Gentle Shepherd ♦ Prometheans. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
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. | ||
| Title | Author | Quote |
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. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(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. | |
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. |
| 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. | ||
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. | |
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| 1. Crosswords 2. Usage: Modern 3. Quotations: Fiction 4. Quotations: Spoken | 5. Expressions 6. Translations: Modern 7. Anagrams 8. Bibliography |
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