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Burst [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. A sudden disruption; a violent rending; more appropriately, a sudden explosion or shooting forth; as a burst of thunder; a burst of applause, a burst of passion.

2. A rupture, a hernia, or the unnatural protrusion of the contents of the abdomen.

Burst [Participle passive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. or adjective Affected with a rupture or hernia.

2. Opened or rent asunder by violence.

Burst [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. preterit tense and participle passive burst The old participle bursten is nearly obsolete.

2. To fly or break open with force, or with sudden violence; to suffer a violent disruption. The peculiar force of this word is, in expressing a sudden rupture, with violence, or expansion, or both. Hence it is generally used to signify the sudden rupture of a thing by internal force, and a liberation from confinement; as, to burst from a prison; the heart bursts with grief.

3. To break away; to spring from; as, to burst from the arms.

4. To come or fall upon suddenly or with violence; to rush upon unexpectedly; as, a sound bursts upon our ears.

5. To issue suddenly, or to come from a hidden or retired place into more open view; as, a river bursts from a valley; a spring bursts from the earth.

6. To break forth into action suddenly; as, to burst into tears.

7. To break or rush in with violence; as, to burst into a house or a room.

8. It is often followed by an intensive particle; as, out, forth, away, from, or asunder.

Burst [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

To break or rend by force or violence; to open suddenly; as, to burst a chain or a door; to burst a cannon.

Burst [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Burst [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. A sudden breaking forth; a violent rending; an explosion; as, a burst of thunder; a burst of applause; a burst of passion; a burst of inspiration.

2. Any brief, violent exertion or effort; a spurt; as, a burst of speed.

3. A sudden opening, as of landscape; a stretch; an expanse.

4. A rupture or hernia; a breach.

Burst [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To fly apart or in pieces; of break open; to yield to force or pressure, especially to a sudden and violent exertion of force, or to pressure from within; to explode; as, the boiler had burst; the buds will burst in spring.

2. To exert force or pressure by which something is made suddenly to give way; to break through obstacles or limitations; hence, to appear suddenly and unexpectedly or unaccountably, or to depart in such manner; -- usually with some qualifying adverb or preposition, as forth, out, away, into, upon, through, etc.

Burst [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To break or rend by violence, as by an overcharge or by strain or pressure, esp. from within; to force open suddenly; as, to burst a cannon; to burst a blood vessel; to burst open the doors.

2. To break.

3. To produce as an effect of bursting; as, to burst a hole through the wall.

Bursten Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. of Breste

2. p. p. of Burst, v. i.

Burstenness [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

The state of having a rupture; the hernia.

Burster [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

One that bursts.

Burster [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

One that bursts.

Bursting [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

The Herniaria, a plant said to be good against hernia or ruptures.

Bursting [Participle present tense] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Rending or parting by violence; exploding.

Bursting [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Burstwort [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A plant (Herniaria glabra) supposed to be valuable for the cure of hernia or rupture.

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Genesis 7:11

In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.

In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, on the seventeenth day of the second month, all the fountains of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened.

2 Samuel 5:20

And David came to Baal-perazim, and David smote them there, and said, The LORD hath broken forth upon mine enemies before me, as the breach of waters. Therefore he called the name of that place Baal-perazim.

So David went to Baal-perazim, where he defeated the Philistines and said, “Like a bursting flood, the LORD has burst out against my enemies before me.” So he called that place Baal-perazim.

2 Samuel 6:8

And David was displeased, because the LORD had made a breach upon Uzzah: and he called the name of the place Perez-uzzah to this day.

Then David became angry because the LORD had burst forth against Uzzah; so he named that place Perez-uzzah, as it is called to this day.

1 Chronicles 13:11

And David was displeased, because the LORD had made a breach upon Uzza: wherefore that place is called Perez-uzza to this day.

Then David became angry because the LORD had burst forth against Uzzah; so he named that place Perez-uzzah, as it is called to this day.

1 Chronicles 14:11

So they came up to Baal-perazim; and David smote them there. Then David said, God hath broken in upon mine enemies by mine hand like the breaking forth of waters: therefore they called the name of that place Baal-perazim.

So David and his men went up to Baal-perazim, where he defeated the Philistines and said, “Like a bursting flood, God has burst out against my enemies by my hand.” So they called that place Baal-perazim.

1 Chronicles 15:13

For because ye did it not at the first, the LORD our God made a breach upon us, for that we sought him not after the due order.

It was because you Levites were not with us the first time that the LORD our God burst forth in anger against us. For we did not consult Him about the proper order.”

Job 26:8

He bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds; and the cloud is not rent under them.

He wraps up the waters in His clouds, yet the clouds do not burst under their own weight.

Job 32:19

Behold, my belly is as wine which hath no vent; it is ready to burst like new bottles.

Behold, my belly is like unvented wine; it is about to burst like a new wineskin.

Job 38:8

Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it brake forth, as if it had issued out of the womb?

Who enclosed the sea behind doors when it burst forth from the womb,

Proverbs 3:10

So shall thy barns be filled with plenty, and thy presses shall burst out with new wine.

then your barns will be filled with plenty, and your vats will overflow with new wine.

Isaiah 30:14

And he shall break it as the breaking of the potters’ vessel that is broken in pieces; he shall not spare: so that there shall not be found in the bursting of it a sherd to take fire from the hearth, or to take water withal out of the pit.

It will break in pieces like a potter’s jar, shattered so that no fragment can be found. Not a shard will be found in the dust large enough to scoop the coals from a hearth or to skim the water from a cistern.”

Isaiah 55:12

For ye shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace: the mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.

You will indeed go out with joy and be led forth in peace; the mountains and hills will burst into song before you, and all the trees of the field will clap their hands.

Jeremiah 2:20

For of old time I have broken thy yoke, and burst thy bands; and thou saidst, I will not transgress; when upon every high hill and under every green tree thou wanderest, playing the harlot.

“For long ago you broke your yoke and tore off your chains, saying, ‘I will not serve!’ Indeed, on every high hill and under every green tree you lay down as a prostitute.

Jeremiah 5:5

I will get me unto the great men, and will speak unto them; for they have known the way of the LORD, and the judgment of their God: but these have altogether broken the yoke, and burst the bonds.

I will go to the powerful and speak to them. Surely they know the way of the LORD, the justice of their God.” But they too, with one accord, had broken the yoke and torn off the chains.

Jeremiah 30:8

For it shall come to pass in that day, saith the LORD of hosts, that I will break his yoke from off thy neck, and will burst thy bonds, and strangers shall no more serve themselves of him:

On that day, declares the LORD of Hosts, I will break the yoke off their necks and tear off their bonds, and no longer will strangers enslave them.

Ezekiel 13:11

Say unto them which daub it with untempered morter, that it shall fall: there shall be an overflowing shower; and ye, O great hailstones, shall fall; and a stormy wind shall rend it.

tell those whitewashing the wall that it will fall. Rain will come in torrents, I will send hailstones plunging down, and a windstorm will burst forth.

Joel 2:8

Neither shall one thrust another; they shall walk every one in his path: and when they fall upon the sword, they shall not be wounded.

They do not jostle one another; each proceeds in his path. They burst through the defenses, never breaking ranks.

Nahum 1:13

For now will I break his yoke from off thee, and will burst thy bonds in sunder.

For I will now break their yoke from your neck and tear away your shackles.”

Matthew 9:17

Neither do men put new wine into old bottles: else the bottles break, and the wine runneth out, and the bottles perish: but they put new wine into new bottles, and both are preserved.

Neither do men pour new wine into old wineskins. If they do, the skins will burst, the wine will spill, and the wineskins will be ruined. Instead, they pour new wine into new wineskins, and both are preserved.”

Mark 2:22

And no man putteth new wine into old bottles: else the new wine doth burst the bottles, and the wine is spilled, and the bottles will be marred: but new wine must be put into new bottles.

And no one pours new wine into old wineskins. If he does, the wine will burst the skins, and both the wine and the wineskins will be ruined. Instead, new wine is poured into new wineskins.”