Crossword-Solution: BURST 5 letters, 157 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

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Word Word Type Definition
Burst imp. & p. p. of Burst
Burst v. i. To fly apart or in pieces; of break open; to yield to
force or pressure, especially to a sudden and violent exertion of
force, or to pressure from within; to explode; as, the boiler had
burst; the buds will burst in spring.
Burst v. i. To exert force or pressure by which something is made
suddenly to give way; to break through obstacles or limitations; hence,
to appear suddenly and unexpectedly or unaccountably, or to depart in
such manner; -- usually with some qualifying adverb or preposition, as
forth, out, away, into, upon, through, etc.
Burst v. t. To break or rend by violence, as by an overcharge or by
strain or pressure, esp. from within; to force open suddenly; as, to
burst a cannon; to burst a blood vessel; to burst open the doors.
Burst v. t. To break.
Burst v. t. To produce as an effect of bursting; as, to burst a hole
through the wall.
Burst n. A sudden breaking forth; a violent rending; an explosion;
as, a burst of thunder; a burst of applause; a burst of passion; a
burst of inspiration.
Burst n. Any brief, violent exertion or effort; a spurt; as, a burst
of speed.
Burst n. A sudden opening, as of landscape; a stretch; an expanse.
Burst n. A rupture or hernia; a breach.

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Word Anagrams
BURST anagram BRUST, BURTS

We have 157 clues for the answer “BURST”

Clue Answers
"I hate to ___ your bubble . . ." 1 answer
"Sun," "star," or "cloud" follower 1 answer
A sudden activity. 1 answer
Blast of gunfire 1 answer
Break up suddenly 1 answer
Bubbles do it 1 answer
Cloud or sun follower 1 answer
Condom problem 1 answer
Disintegrate like a bubble. 1 answer
Explode, as a balloon 1 answer
Explode, as a water main 1 answer
Explode, like a bubble 1 answer
Explode suddenly with force 1 answer
Fireworks explosion 1 answer
Fly apart 1 answer
Fly into pieces 1 answer
Fly to pieces 1 answer
Go "pop" 1 answer
Like a broken balloon 1 answer
Like a ruined balloon 1 answer
Overfill, perhaps 1 answer
Pop like a balloon 1 answer
Pop like a bubble 1 answer
Pop, as a bubble 1 answer
Popped 1 answer
Popped like a balloon 1 answer
Popped like a bubble 1 answer
Popped, as a balloon 1 answer
Popped, as a water balloon 1 answer
React to pressure, perhaps 1 answer
Speed spurt 1 answer
Star or cloud follower 1 answer
Stick with a pin, say 1 answer
Sudden spurt 1 answer
Vehement outbreak, as of applause. 1 answer
Went "pop" 1 answer
Sudden outbreak or rupture 1 answer
Word with sun, star or cloud 1 answer
Yield to internal pressure 1 answer
___ into tears (start to cry) 1 answer
pop ballon 1 answer
Surge (of activity) 1 answer
Scholar's funds 2 answers
Break open suddenly 2 answers
Broke open 2 answers
Let it all out, say 2 answers
Pop, as a balloon 2 answers
Stick with a pin 2 answers
Succumb to pressure 2 answers
Sudden activity. 2 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ETAER
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with BURST (5)

They will find the cake and they will gobble it up, because, having no mother, they don’t know how dangerous ’tis to eat rich damp cake.” He burst into laughter, not hollow laughter now, but honest laughter.
Peter Pan James M. Barrie 1991
Thrice he assayd, and thrice in spite of scorn, Tears such as Angels weep, burst forth: at last Words interwove with sighs found out their way.
Paradise Lost John Milton 1991
Unwilling to lose his filberts, and yet unable to withdraw his hand, he burst into tears and bitterly lamented his disappointment.
Aesop’s Fables Aesop 2000
The response was unanimous and in thunder-tones—“NO!” “Will you succor and protect him as a brother-man—a resident of the old Bay State?” “YES!” shouted the whole mass, with an energy so startling, that the ruthless tyrants south of Mason and Dixon’s line might almost have heard the mighty burst of feeling, and recognized it as the pledge of an invincible determination, on the part of those who gave it, never to betray him that wanders, but to hide the outcast, and firmly to abide the consequences.
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Frederick Douglass 1992
Suddenly a woman burst into the shed, as if she had been blown in, accompanied by a shower of rain-drops.
O Pioneers! Willa Cather 1991

Quotes with BURST (3)

Then I realize what it is. It's him. Something about him makes me feel like I am about to fall. Or turn to liquid. Or burst into flames.
Veronica Roth Divergent
What she had realized was that love was that moment when your heart was about to burst.
Stieg Larsson The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
I have loved in life and I have been loved. I have drunk the bowl of poison from the hands of love as nectar, and have been raised above life's joy and sorrow. My heart, aflame in love, set afire every heart that came in touch with it. My heart has been rent and joined again; My heart has been broken and again made whole; My heart has been wounded and healed again; A thousand deaths my heart has died, and thanks be to love, it lives yet. I went through hell and saw there love…
Hazrat Inayat Khan The Dance of the Soul
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Appears in: Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, The Atlantic, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 115 times in crossword archives (1942–2025).