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Plural of burst

regular plural

The plural of burst is bursts.

Forms of burst

Singularburst /bɜːst/
Pluralbursts
Countablecountable

Bursts in a sentence

  • The bursts of the bombs could be heard miles away.
  • I read it in two bursts.
  • Calcium bursts would increase spermatozoa motility, where cholesterol would decapacitate spermatozoa, so preventing untimely activation.From the entry decapacitate
  • When a follicle is mature, the egg within it bursts out of the ovary, and the Fallopian tube's fingerlike fimbria reach out and grab it.From the entry fimbria
  • There is always that one tortellino that bursts in the boiling water.2020, Camilla Pang, Explaining Humans: What Science Can Teach Us about Life, Love and Relationships, Penguin Books, →ISBN. From the entry tortellino

Meaning of burst

  1. verb To break from internal pressure.
  2. verb To cause to break from internal pressure.
  3. verb To cause to break by any means.

Full definition of burst

Questions about the plural of burst

What is the plural of burst?
The plural of burst is bursts.
Is burst countable?
Burst is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: burst (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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