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burst forth

burst forth verb: to erupt.

Verb

burst forth (third-person singular simple present bursts forth, present participle bursting forth, simple past and past participle burst forth)

  1. (intransitive) To 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)
    • 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

burst forth meaning in Kannada, Sanskrit and Arabic

burst forth in Kannada

ಸಿಡಿ, ಉಗು, ಒಗು

burst forth in Sanskrit

to burst forth, appear
स्फूर्ज् sphūrj

burst forth in Arabic

to erupt, to emanate out of
اِنْبَثَقَ inbaṯaqa

Forms of burst forth

third-person singular presentbursts forth
present participlebursting forth
past participleburst forth
pastburst forth

Questions about burst forth

What does burst forth mean?
Burst forth means to erupt.
What is burst forth in Kannada?
Burst forth in Kannada is ಸಿಡಿ, ಉಗು, ಒಗು. See Burst forth meaning in Kannada.
What part of speech is burst forth?
Burst forth is a verb.
What is the past tense of burst forth?
The past tense of burst forth is burst forth.

Words near burst forth in the dictionary

  1. bursopathy
  2. bursopentine
  3. burst
  4. burst a blood vessel
  5. burst at the seams
  6. burst forth
  7. burst in
  8. burst into
  9. burst into flame
  10. burst into flames
  11. burst into flower

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Adapted from Wiktionary: burst forth (page history and authors); burst forth (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); स्फूर्ज् (Sanskrit) (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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