Burst Out

Definition: Burst Out

Burst Out

Verb

1. Give sudden release to an expression; "We burst out laughing"; "I hate you," she burst out.

2. Appear suddenly: "Spring popped up everywhere in the valley".

3. Erupt or intensify suddenly; "Unrest erupted in the country"; "Tempers flared at the meeting".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Burst Out

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.

Egress

Exude, transude; leak, run through, out through; percolate, transcolate; egurgitate; strain, distill; perspire, sweat, drain, ooze; filter, filtrate; dribble, gush, spout, flow out; well, well out; pour, trickle; (water in motion); effuse, extravasate, disembogue, discharge itself, debouch; come forth, break forth; burst out, burst through; find vent; escape.

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.

Violence

Break out, fly out, burst out; bounce, explode, go off, displode, fly, detonate, thunder, blow up, crump, flash, flare, burst; shock, strain; break open, force open, prize open.

Crosswords: Burst Out

Instead, they burst out laughing (Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters; writing credit: Chieko Schrader; Leonard Schrader)

Did you burst out with pride for the red, white and blue (Where Were You (When The World Stopped Turning); performing artist: Alan Jackson)

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

Chenildieu burst out laughing

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "burst out": burst out crying ♦ burst out laughing ♦ burst out sobbing. Additional references.

Albanian

dal si furtunë. (various references)

Bulgarian 

възкликвам (exclaim), излизам бързо и неочаквано, избухвам (blaze, blow, blow up, break forth, erupt, explode, fire, flash, fly into a rage, fulminate, go off the deep end, lose one's temper, pop off), избивам (beat out, erupt, knock out, massacre, slaughter, start out, strike). (various references)

Chinese 

爆發 (to break out, to burst out, to erupt, to explode). (various references)

Czech

vytrysknout (spurt, spurt out), vyrazit ven, vyřítit se (tear out). (various references)

Finnish

puhjeta sanomaan (exclaim). (various references)

German

hervorbrechen (break forth, burst forth, outburst, to outburst), herausbrechen (lever out, quarry out), ausbrechen (blow out, blow up, break away, break loose, break off, break out, break up, bring up, burst, bust, bust out, come away, come on, erupt, escape, explode, get loose, heave up, swerve, throw up, to break out, to erupt, vomit). (various references)

Greek 

ξεσπώ σε δάκρυα / γέλια (burst out into tears, laughter). (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�"ת�'לע (break out, erupt), ל�"�'יח (attack suddenly, dash, gush), לצאת מ�'�"רו (flare up, lose one's temper). (various references)

Hungarian

kitör (break out, to blunt, to break forth, to break loose, to break out, to erupt, to explode, to flare up, to get out of control, to jink, to make a sally, to sally out, to spout). (various references)

Indonesian

membersit (be prominent, protrude). (various references)

Italian

scoppiare a ridere, divampare (blaze up, burn, flare up). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

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), 剣付く�'食わす (to burst out in anger). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

なき� す (to be moved to tears, to begin to cry, to burst into tears, to burst out crying), け�"つく�'くわす (to burst out in anger). (various references)

Manx

skiootal magh (break forth), brishey magh (bud, burst open, crop out, declare, erupt, eruption, outbreak, outburst). (various references)

Pig Latin

urstbay outay.(various references)

Romanian

izbucni (break forth, break out, burst, burst into, erupt, flare, fling, gush, spurt). (various references)

Russian 

разражаться (break out, burst into), вспыхивать (flare, flash, flicker). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

prsnuti (burst, burst into, spatter, splash), izbiti (beat, break out, burst in, erupt, lambaste, strike, thrash, trounce). (various references)

Spanish

salir corriendo (run out, set off running). (various references)

Swedish

bryta fram (break out), brista ut, utbrista (exclaim), störta ut. (various references)

Turkish

söyleyivermek (blurt out, burst in, chop, ejaculate), patlak vermek (blow up, break out, burst, erupt, explode, outcrop), haykırmak (bawl, burst in, call to, cry, cry out, ejaculate, exclaim, roar, rumble, rumble out, scream, shout, shout out, spit, whoop, yell). (various references)

Ukrainian

вибухнути (burst). (various references)

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

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

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: outburst.

-1 letter: rubouts, surtout, turbots.

-2 letters: bututs, robust, rubout, trouts, turbos, turbot, tutors.

-3 letters: borts, botts, bouts, burst, butts, butut, roust, routs, rubus, stour, stout, strut, sturt, torts, torus, tours, touts, trots, trout, trust, turbo, tutor, tutus.

-4 letters: bort, bots, bott, bout, bros, brut, burs, bust, buts, butt, orbs, orts, ours, oust, outs, robs, rots, rout.

+1 letter: outbursts.

+2 letters: roustabout, turnabouts.

+3 letters: roustabouts.

+4 letters: unobstructed.

+5 letters: subreptitious, subsaturation.