bursting

/ˈbɝstɪŋ/

adj 3noun 1

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ADJ.

due, full, new, so-called, wee

VERB + BURSTING

couldn't, head, help, kept, kid, said

BURSTING + NOUN

banks, corn, curiosity, energy, fury, health, home, ideas

PREP.

in, in, into, out, with

Definitions

adj

Very eager (to do something).

I was bursting to tell him the secret.

Urgently needing to urinate.

Can you tell me where the toilets are? I'm bursting.

The kid is bursting to go to the toilet.

So full (with something) as almost to erupt.

The newly stocked refrigerator is bursting with fresh vegetables.

Her heart was bursting with repressed emotion.

noun

The act by which something bursts.

the burstings of balloons

The locomotive involved in the derailment of the 4.33 a.m. train from Ruabon to Barmouth on the night of October 6, due to the bursting of the banks of the Shropshire Union Canal near Llangollen, was 2-6-0 No. 6315; the position into which the locomotive fell so completely defied all attempts to re-rail it that it was cut up on the spot.

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I was bursting to tell him the secret.

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Can you tell me where the toilets are? I'm bursting.

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The kid is bursting to go to the toilet.

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the burstings of balloons

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The locomotive involved in the derailment of the 4.33 a.m. train from Ruabon to Barmouth on the night of October 6, due to the bursting of the banks of the Shropshire Union Canal near Llangollen, was

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Serious as was the flood damage in England, the bursting of some of the dykes on the coast of Holland resulted in an even more widespread and devastating inundation.

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