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Definitioner
Substantiv
- An instance of, or the act of bursting.
- A series of shots fired from an automatic firearm.
Verb
- (intransitive) To break from internal pressure.
- (transitive) To cause to break from internal pressure.
- (transitive, obsolete) To cause to break by any means.
- (transitive) To separate formfeed at perforation lines.
- (intransitive) To enter or exit hurriedly and unexpectedly.
- (transitive) To produce as an effect of bursting.
Exempel
- The bursts of the bombs could be heard miles away.
- ‘[…] I remember a lady coming to inspect St. Mary's Home where I was brought up and seeing us all in our lovely Elizabethan uniforms we were so proud of, and bursting into tears all over us because “it was wicked to dress us like charity children”. […]’.
- I blew the balloon up too much, and it burst.
- I burst the balloon when I blew it up too much.
- You will not pay for the glasses you have burst?
- He burst his lance against the sand below.
- I printed the report on formfeed paper then burst the sheets.
- He entered Maromme shouting for the people of the inn, burst open the door with a thrust of his shoulder, made for a sack of oats, emptied a bottle of sweet cider into the manger, and again mounted his nag, whose feet struck fire as it dashed along.
- Like hungry dogs who have sniffed their meat, the mob bursts in, trampling down the women who sought to bar the entrance with their bodies.
- to burst a hole through the wall
- The balloon burst.
- The bomb burst.
- The water pipe burst.
- The blood vessel burst.
- The water burst out of the dam.
- There was a sudden burst of activity.
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