burst : Idioms & Phrases

• verb jump out from a hiding place and surprise (someone)
  sally out; rush out; leap out.
  
  • The attackers leapt out from the bushes
• verb be unleashed; emerge with violence or noise
  explode; break loose.
  
  • His anger exploded
• verb come into or as if into flower
  effloresce.
  
  • These manifestations effloresced in the past

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• verb spring suddenly
  burst in on.
  
  • He burst upon our conversation

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• verb give sudden release to an expression
  
  • We burst out laughing
  • 'I hate you,' she burst out
• verb appear suddenly
  pop out.
  
  • Spring popped up everywhere in the valley
• verb erupt or intensify suddenly
  flare; break open; erupt; flare up; irrupt.
  
  • Unrest erupted in the country
  • Tempers flared at the meeting
  • The crowd irrupted into a burst of patriotism

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• verb spring suddenly
  burst in on.
  
  • He burst upon our conversation

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• noun a quantity of explosive to be set off at one time
  explosive charge; charge; burster.
  
  • this cartridge has a powder charge of 50 grains

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• . See under Charge.

Webster 1913

• noun a high explosive that is used to damage the target that is under attack
  disrupting explosive.
  

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Cloud"-burst` noun

Definitions

1. A sudden copious rainfall, as the whole cloud had been precipitated at once.

Webster 1913