Talk:burst

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"a burst of energy"

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...or, "bursts of energy" : the def for this sense seems to be missing. --Jerome Potts 03:44, 10 October 2009 (UTC)Reply

bursted

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There is evidence for bursted as a past tense; it may be archaic or dialectal. Equinox 18:20, 27 May 2010 (UTC)Reply

The OED lists (deprecated template usage) bursted for the two past forms as "8–9 incorrectly bursted" (the "8–9" means "eighteenth- to nineteenth-Century") in its entry for “burst, v., later noting that it's a US thing, wherein it is also written "vulgarly busted". My hypothesis is that (deprecated template usage) bursted is labelled "incorrectly" spelt because it unetymologically mixes strong and weak conjugation paradigms.  — Raifʻhār Doremítzwr ~ (U · T · C) ~ 10:12, 28 May 2010 (UTC)Reply

bursting at the seams

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full of / seething with (anything)

Done Done Equinox 11:57, 13 January 2020 (UTC)Reply