Definition of burst

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Burst (n.) A sudden opening, as of landscape; a stretch; an expanse..

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Flame :: Flame (n.) To burst forth like flame; to break out in violence of passion; to be kindled with zeal or ardor.
Volley :: Volley (n.) A burst or emission of many things at once; as, a volley of words..
Upburst :: Upburst (n.) The act of bursting upwards; a breaking through to the surface; an upbreak or uprush; as, an upburst of molten matter..
To-brest :: To-brest (v. t.) To burst or break in pieces.
Stave :: Stave (n.) To break in a stave or the staves of; to break a hole in; to burst; -- often with in; as, to stave a cask; to stave in a boat..
Blaze :: Blaze (n.) A bursting out, or active display of any quality; an outburst; a brilliant display..
Dehiscence :: Dehiscence (n.) A gaping or bursting open along a definite line of attachment or suture, without tearing, as in the opening of pods, or the bursting of capsules at maturity so as to emit seeds, etc.; also, the bursting open of follicles, as in the ovaries of animals, for the expulsion of their contents..
Splintery :: Splinterproof (a.) Proof against the splinters, or fragments, of bursting shells..
Rupture :: Rupture (n.) A bursting open, as of a steam boiler, in a less sudden manner than by explosion. See Explosion..
Cloud-burst :: Cloud-burst (n.) A sudden copious rainfall, as the whole cloud had been precipitated at once..
Ecballium :: Ecballium (n.) A genus of cucurbitaceous plants consisting of the single species Ecballium agreste (or Elaterium), the squirting cucumber. Its fruit, when ripe, bursts and violently ejects its seeds, together with a mucilaginous juice, from which elaterium, a powerful cathartic medicine, is prepared..
Squib :: Squib (a.) A little pipe, or hollow cylinder of paper, filled with powder or combustible matter, to be thrown into the air while burning, so as to burst there with a crack..
Guffaw :: Guffaw (n.) A loud burst of laughter; a horse laugh.
Ebullition :: Ebullition (n.) A sudden burst or violent display; an outburst; as, an ebullition of anger or ill temper..
Gust :: Gust (n.) A sudden violent burst of passion.
Split :: Split (v. i.) To burst with laughter.
Endorhizous :: Endorhizous (a.) Having the radicle of the embryo sheathed by the cotyledon, through which the embryo bursts in germination, as in many monocotyledonous plants..
Rupture :: Rupture (v. t.) To part by violence; to break; to burst; as, to rupture a blood vessel..
Recollect :: Recollect (v. t.) Reflexively, to compose one's self; to recover self-command; as, to recollect one's self after a burst of anger; -- sometimes, formerly, in the perfect participle..
Outgush :: Outgush (n.) A pouring out; an outburst.
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