starbursting

Verb

starburst (third-person singular simple present starbursts, present participle starbursting, simple past and past participle starbursted)

1. To experience an unusually high rate of star formation.
2. To explode; to burst out violently via, or in such a manner as to cause, an explosion.
3. To make a starburst pattern.
   • The faint light from the sky starbursted on a tear. Suddenly there was something appallingly human about her.1998, Graham Joyce, The Tooth Fairy

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