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bursting up

bursting up is the present participle and gerund of burst up.

Meaning of burst up

Verb

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

  1. (colloquial, dated) To explode.
  2. (colloquial, dated) To fail; to go bankrupt.

Questions about bursting up

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

Words near bursting up in the dictionary

  1. bursting out laughing
  2. bursting point
  3. bursting pressure
  4. bursting pressures
  5. bursting someone's bubble
  6. bursting up
  7. burstingly
  8. burstings
  9. burstlet
  10. burstlets
  11. Burston

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