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Another word for bursting

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Adjective

  1. Completely filled

    See also:

    full

  2. Intensely desirous or interested

    Idioms:
    See also:

    concern

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Another word for bursting

Modifier

  1. Breaking open

    See also:

    breaking

  2. As full as possible

    See also:

    jammed

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Sentence Examples

  • And bursting into tears she hid her face in her handkerchief and rushed from the room.

  • "My king!" he bellowed, bursting into the chamber.

  • I shall tell! cried Sonya, bursting into tears.

  • The fruit is a capsule bursting loculicidally, i.e.

  • When the frost comes out in the spring, and even in a thawing day in the winter, the sand begins to flow down the slopes like lava, sometimes bursting out through the snow and overflowing it where no sand was to be seen before.

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