Talk:burst
Latest comment: 4 years ago by Equinox in topic bursting at the seams
"a burst of energy"
[edit]...or, "bursts of energy" : the def for this sense seems to be missing. --Jerome Potts 03:44, 10 October 2009 (UTC)
There is evidence for bursted as a past tense; it may be archaic or dialectal. Equinox ◑ 18:20, 27 May 2010 (UTC)
- 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)
full of / seething with (anything)