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BURST, pret. and pp. burst. The old participle bursten is nearly obsolete.

1. To fly or break open with force, or with sudden violence to suffer a violent disruption. The peculiar force of this word is, in expressing a sudden rupture, with violence, or expansion, or both. Hence it is generally used to signify the sudden rupture of a thing by internal force,and a liberation from confinement as, to burst from a prison the heart bursts with grief.

2. To break away to spring from as, to burst from the arms.

3. To come or fall upon suddenly or with violence to rush upon unexpectedly as, a sound bursts upon our ears.

4. To issue suddenly, or to come from a hidden or retired place into more open view as, a river bursts from a valley a spring bursts from the earth.

5. To break forth into action suddenly as, to burst into tears.

6. To break or rush in with violence as, to burst into a house or a room.

It is often followed by an intensive particle as, out, forth, away, from, or asunder.

BURST, To break or rend by force or violence to open suddenly as, to burst a chain or a door to burst a cannon.

BURST, n. A sudden disruption a violent rending more appropriately, a sudden explosion or shooting forth as a burst of thunder a burst of applause, a burst of passion.

1. A rupture, a hernia, or the unnatural protrusion of the contents of the abdomen.

BURST, or BURST'EN, pp. or a. Affected with a rupture or hernia.

BURST, pp. Opened or rent asunder by violence.