Noun: burst
| Singular | burst |
| Plural | bursts |
Sample Sentences
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The bursts of the bombs could be heard miles away.
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I read it in two bursts.
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"It's my wedding-day," cried Biddy, in a burst of happiness, "and I am married to Joe!" [1860 December – 1861 August, Charles Dickens, Great Expectations […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, […], published October 1861, →OCLC:]
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[…] and only at Barnet did Tappin give Empire of India a burst to bring us up to the 60 m.p.h. speed ceiling of the London area. [1956 December 26, W. J. Alcock, “On the Footplate of the "Elizabethan"”, in Railway Magazine, page 821:]
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It was tragic, all right, but George and Hazel couldn't think about it very hard. Hazel had a perfectly average intelligence, which meant she couldn't think about anything except in short bursts. [1961, Kurt Vonnegut, Harrison Bergeron, page 1:]
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a ground burst; a surface burst
Nouns inflected like burst
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. 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”).
2. See also West Frisian boarste, Dutch barsten, Danish briste, Swedish brista; also Irish bris (“to break”)). More at brine. Also cognate to debris. See: Old English Nouns '
berstan', Irish Nouns '
bris'.
Verbs referencing "burst"
Irish Nouns
bris.