BURST
What does "BURST" mean?
To break open or apart suddenly and violently, usually from internal pressure.
Meanings
- To break apart or fly open suddenly, often with force. The water main burst and flooded the whole street by dawn.
- To move, appear, or act suddenly and forcefully. She burst into the room without knocking.
- A sudden brief outbreak of something. A burst of applause filled the hall.
Did you know?
- A gamma-ray burst can pour out in seconds roughly the energy the Sun will radiate across its entire 10-billion-year lifetime - the most powerful explosions known to science.
Word origin
From Old English 'berstan' (to break suddenly), of Germanic origin, related to German 'bersten' and Dutch 'barsten'.
Remember it
BURST has the same shape as FIRST but starts with a bang: be FIRST to BURST.
A little poem
The dam holds, then doesn't-
a year of slow pressure spent
in a single white roar.
haiku
Wordplay
- The balloon went to therapy because it kept bursting into tears - and everything else.
What it teaches
Pressure with no outlet does not vanish; it waits, then chooses its own moment to leave.
Quick facts
What does BURST mean?
To break open or apart suddenly and violently, usually from internal pressure.
Is BURST a valid word?
Yes — BURST is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is BURST?
BURST has 5 letters and 1 syllable.
Where does BURST come from?
From Old English 'berstan' (to break suddenly), of Germanic origin, related to German 'bersten' and Dutch 'barsten'.
What can BURST teach us?
Pressure with no outlet does not vanish; it waits, then chooses its own moment to leave.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.