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bursting out laughing

bursting out laughing is the present participle and gerund of burst out laughing.

Meaning of burst out laughing

Verb

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

  1. (idiomatic, intransitive) To start laughing suddenly and intensely.

Questions about bursting out laughing

What is bursting out laughing the present participle and gerund of?
Bursting out laughing is the present participle and gerund of burst out laughing.

Words near bursting out laughing in the dictionary

  1. bursting into
  2. bursting into flames
  3. bursting into flower
  4. bursting into tears
  5. bursting out
  6. bursting out laughing
  7. bursting point
  8. bursting pressure
  9. bursting pressures
  10. bursting someone's bubble
  11. bursting up

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bursting out laughing (page history and authors); burst out laughing (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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