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Burst Forth

Definition: Burst Forth

Burst Forth

Verb

1. 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 Forth

Synonyms: break loose (v), effloresce (v), explode (v), leap out (v), rush out (v), sally out (v). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Burst Forth

ContextSynonyms 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.

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Crosswords: Burst Forth

English words defined with "burst forth": break looseeffloresce, explodeHippocrenesally, sortieTo break cover. (references)
Specialty definitions using "burst forth": En-hakkore. (references)
Etymologies containing "burst forth": Exanthema. (references)

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Familiar Quotations: Burst Forth

AuthorQuotation

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Use in Literature: Burst Forth

TitleAuthorQuote

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.

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Expression: Burst Forth

Expression using "burst forth": ready to burst forth. Additional references.

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

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Modern Translation: Burst Forth

Language Translations for "burst forth"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

(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

   

Scottish

  

brùchd (belch, sally). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

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)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Burst Forth

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

exiliens, exilierunt, exilivit, prosilio. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Anagrams: Burst Forth

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.

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

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INDEX

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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