Meanings
present singular third person bursts forth · participle present bursting forth
- intransitiveTo erupt.
I am inventing a language which must necessarily burst forth from a very new poetics, that could be defined in a couple of words: Paint, not the thing, but the effect it produces.
1864, Stéphane Mallarmé, (Please provide the book title or journal name)1 more example
If Spring came but once in a century, instead of once a year, or burst forth with the sound of an earthquake, and not in silence, what wonder and expectation there would be in all hearts to behold the miraculous change!
1847, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Kavanagh
Synonyms & antonyms
verbjump out from a hiding place and surprise (someone)
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Translations
Arabic اِنْبَثَقَ
- اِنْبَثَقَ (inbaṯaqa)to erupt, to emanate out of
Māori kowhera
- kowherato erupt, to emanate out of
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