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blurting out

blurting out is the present participle and gerund of blurt out.

Meaning of blurt out

Verb

blurt out (third-person singular simple present blurts out, present participle blurting out, simple past and past participle blurted out)

  1. (idiomatic) To say suddenly, without thinking
    • When in court, it is inadvisable to blurt out the first thing you think of. Instead, take time to construct coherent sentences.

Questions about blurting out

What is blurting out the present participle and gerund of?
Blurting out is the present participle and gerund of blurt out.

Words near blurting out in the dictionary

  1. blurted
  2. blurted out
  3. blurter
  4. blurters
  5. blurting
  6. blurting out
  7. blurtingly
  8. blurtings
  9. Blurton
  10. Blurtons
  11. blurts

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Adapted from Wiktionary: blurting out (page history and authors); blurt out (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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