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Definition: Burst Forth |
Burst ForthVerb1. Jump out from a hiding place and surprise (someone); "The attackers leapt out from the bushes". 2. Be unleashed; burst forth with violence or noise, as of an emotion or an expression of emotion; "His anger exploded". 3. Burst forth into or as if into flower; "These manifestations effloresced in the past". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: Burst ForthSynonyms: break loose (v), effloresce (v), explode (v), leap out (v), rush out (v), sally out (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Beginning | Come into existence, come into the world; make one's debut, take birth; burst forth, break out; spring up, spring forth, crop up, pop up, appear, materialize. |
Excitability | Impulsive, impetuous, passionate; uncontrolled, uncontrollable; ungovernable, irrepressible, stanchless, inextinguishable, burning, simmering, volcanic, ready to burst forth, volatile. |
Expansion | Verb: become larger; (large; ); expand, widen, enlarge, extend, grow, increase, incrassate, swell, gather; fill out; deploy, take open order, dilate, stretch, distend, spread; mantle, wax; grow up, spring up; bud, bourgeon, shoot, sprout, germinate, put forth, vegetate, pullulate, open, burst forth; gain flesh, gather flesh; outgrow; spread like wildfire, overrun. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Burst Forth |
| English words defined with "burst forth": break loose ♦ effloresce, explode ♦ Hippocrene ♦ sally, sortie ♦ To break cover. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "burst forth": En-hakkore. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "burst forth": Exanthema. (references) |
| Author | Quotation |
Gita 11 | If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst forth at once in the sky, that would be like the splendor of the Mighty One. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Once excited, he burst forth a sort of gaiety characterised his enthusiasm, and he was at once laughing and lyric. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Expression using "burst forth": ready to burst forth. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "burst forth"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 迸 (split, to burst forth, to crack, to spurt). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | hervorbrechen (break forth, burst out, outburst, to outburst), aufsprießen (sprout), aufbrausen (break out, effervesce, fizz up, flare, flare up, fly off the handle, surge, to flare up). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | לפקוע (be cracked, be torn). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Manx | soilshaghey magh (advert, advertise, advertising, announce, announcer, declare, denote, depict, exposition, publicise, publish, publishing, reveal, revelation, set forth), scelley magh. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | urstbay orthfay brùchd (belch, sally). (various references) brotar (break, leap up, shoot, shoot out, spring, sprout, well), abrirse (beat, blossom out, burst, flourish, gape, open, part, prosper, thread, thrust, uncurl, unfold, weave, yawn). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | exiliens, exilierunt, exilivit, prosilio. (various references) |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-f-h-o-r-r-s-t-t-u" | |
-2 letters: thrustor. | |
-3 letters: fourths, trustor, turbots. | |
-4 letters: borsht, broths, burros, fourth, froths, furors, robust, rouths, throbs, thrust, troths, trouts, truths, turbos, turbot, tutors. | |
-5 letters: bhuts, borts, botts, bouts, broth, brush, buhrs, burro, burrs, burst, butts, forbs, forth, forts, fours, frosh, frost, froth, furor, horst, hours, hurst, hurts, roust, routh, routs, ruths, short, shott, shout, shrub. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Quotations: Familiar | 5. Quotations: Fiction 6. Expressions 7. Translations: Modern 8. Translations: Ancient | 9. Anagrams 10. Bibliography |
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