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BURST OUT
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Erupt or intensify suddenly
Example:
The crowd irrupted into a burst of patriotism
Synonyms:
break open; burst out; erupt; flare; flare up; irrupt
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "burst out" is one way to...):
deepen; intensify (become more intense)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Sense 2
Meaning:
Appear suddenly
Example:
Spring popped up everywhere in the valley
Synonyms:
burst out; pop out
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "burst out" is one way to...):
appear (come into sight or view)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Something is ----ing PP
Sense 3
Meaning:
Give sudden release to an expression
Example:
'I hate you,' she burst out
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Hypernyms (to "burst out" is one way to...):
evince; express; show (give expression to)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "burst out"):
rip out (burst out with a violent or profane utterance)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s VERB-ing
Context examples:
In the meantime the astonished team-dogs had burst out of their nests only to be set upon by the fierce invaders.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
Laurie burst out with a hearty boy's laugh, which made several passers-by smile in spite of themselves.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Eliza and I went to look at her: Georgiana, who had burst out into loud weeping, said she dared not go.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
He made no answer; but after a minute's silence burst out with, A famous good thing this marrying scheme, upon my soul!
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
“Very beautiful, indeed,” replied Emma; and she spoke so kindly, that he gratefully burst out, How delighted I am to see you again! and to see you in such excellent looks!
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
"Shut up your wishin' and your croakin'," Henry burst out angrily.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
She received the news with resolute composure; made no observation on it, and at first shed no tears; but after a short time they would burst out, and for the rest of the day, she was in a state hardly less pitiable than when she first learnt to expect the event.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
Most of his time he would spend in his room, with the door locked upon the inside, but sometimes he would emerge in a sort of drunken frenzy and would burst out of the house and tear about the garden with a revolver in his hand, screaming out that he was afraid of no man, and that he was not to be cooped up, like a sheep in a pen, by man or devil.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“The score!” he burst out.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
I burst out laughing, out of sympathy with her merriment; but Grant Munro stood staring, with his hand clutching his throat.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
