Word Meaning

Meaning of "bursts" and the crossword clue

- Blow up, really starting trouble
- Break open
- Broke out
- Erupt
- Explode
- Exploded from Excalibur’s tip
- Outbreak
- Pop (balloon)
- Popped
- Rupture
- Shove through
- Spurt
- Sudden break
- Sudden spurt
- Volley
- Explodes
- Pops
- Ruptures
- of Burst
- To fly apart or in pieces; of break open; to yield to force or pressure, especially to a sudden and violent exertion of force, or to pressure from within; to explode; as, the boiler had burst; the buds will burst in spring.
- To exert force or pressure by which something is made suddenly to give way; to break through obstacles or limitations; hence, to appear suddenly and unexpectedly or unaccountably, or to depart in such manner; -- usually with some qualifying adverb or preposition, as forth, out, away, into, upon, through, etc.
- To break or rend by violence, as by an overcharge or by strain or pressure, esp. from within; to force open suddenly; as, to burst a cannon; to burst a blood vessel; to burst open the doors.
- To break.
- To produce as an effect of bursting; as, to burst a hole through the wall.
- A sudden breaking forth; a violent rending; an explosion; as, a burst of thunder; a burst of applause; a burst of passion; a burst of inspiration.
- Any brief, violent exertion or effort; a spurt; as, a burst of speed.
- A sudden opening, as of landscape; a stretch; an expanse.
- A rupture or hernia; a breach.