Citations:burst

English citations of burst

1. (English verb)
   • (intransitive)
     • ... in tearing out an enormous superannuated ash-tree, now grown quite corpulent, bursten, superfluous, but long a fixture in the soil, and not to be dislodged without revolution, - there was laid bare ...

       1843 Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 2, ch. 3, Landlord Edmund