sudden+burst

  • 21burst — verb (past and past participle burst) 1》 break or cause to break suddenly and violently apart. 2》 be very full: the wardrobe was bursting with clothes.     ↘(be bursting with) feel (an irrepressible emotion or impulse). 3》 move or be opened… …

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  • 22burst out — verb 1. give sudden release to an expression (Freq. 3) We burst out laughing I hate you, she burst out • Hypernyms: ↑express, ↑show, ↑evince • Hyponyms: ↑rip out …

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  • 23burst — A sudden increase in activity. respiratory b. the marked increase in metabolic activity that occurs in phagocytes and certain other cells following binding of particles resulting in an increase in oxygen consumption, formation of su …

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  • 24sudden — adj. Sudden is used with these nouns: ↑acceleration, ↑alarm, ↑anger, ↑appearance, ↑arrival, ↑attack, ↑awakening, ↑awareness, ↑bout, ↑breeze, ↑burst, ↑change …

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  • 25burst — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. rupture, break, rend, bust (sl.); explode, shatter. See violence, disjunction. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [An act or result of bursting] Syn. blowout, rupture, blast, blowup; see blowout 1 , explosion 1 .… …

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  • 26burst — a sudden and violent appearance of a shoal of fish …

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  • 27burst out — break out, leave forcefully; give sudden vent to …

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  • 28burst — I. v. n. 1. Break open (from internal pressure), fly open, be rent asunder, explode, blow up, split, split open, crack. 2. Break (out or forth or upon) suddenly. II. v. a. Rend asunder, break open, split apart. III. n. 1. Explosion …

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  • 29fast radio burst — noun a sudden burst of radio waves detected on earth, coming from a distant but unknown source outside the galaxy. Abbrev.: FRB …

  • 30bubble burst —  Sudden decline in stock prices after a rapid increase.  ► “Japan’s financial markets are in turmoil more than 5 years after the Tokyo stock market bubble burst in 1990.” (Financial World, Aug. 1, 1995, p. 10) …

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