burst

Meaning

1. To break from internal pressure.
2. To cause to break from internal pressure.
3. (obsolete) To cause to break by any means.
4. To separate (printer paper) at perforation lines.
5. To enter or exit hurriedly and unexpectedly.
6. To erupt; to change state suddenly as if bursting.
7. To produce as an effect of bursting.
8. To interrupt suddenly in a violent or explosive manner; to shatter.

explode

split open

burst open

having a hole

flight saturation

fly open

impulsive force

appear suddenly

be divided

be ruined

be shattered

break forth

break in pieces

dash against

open slightly

shower down

tear open

be wea

be in a state in which tearing is likely

uprush

be filled to bursting

break into fragments

ecphlysis

neaf

plosion

smash into pieces

be sundered

reach over

fly asunder

made to gape

rent asunder

cannonball along

thrust ahead

demolition blast

pulse train

rhegma

train of impulses

reference burst

open to show

signal train

arrange cutted piece

sudden burst

broken open

color burst

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/bɝst/

From Middle English bresten, bersten, from Old English berstan, from Proto-West Germanic *brestan, from Proto-Germanic *brestaną, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰres- (“to burst, break, crack, split, separate”), enlargement of *bʰreHi- (“to snip, split”). See also West Frisian boarste, Dutch barsten, Swedish brista; also Irish bris (“to break”)). More at brine. Also cognate to debris.