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Burst out

verb

Give sudden release to an expression. "'I hate you,' she burst out"

Appear suddenly. Synonym: pop out.

Erupt or intensify suddenly. Synonyms: break open, erupt, flare, flare up, irrupt. "Tempers flared at the meeting" , "The crowd irrupted into a burst of patriotism"

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"Burst out" Quotes from Famous Books

... may be decently welcomed in tweed; I have faced many great personages, for my own part, in a tasteful suit of sea-cloth with an end of carpet pending from my gullet. Still, we do maybe twice a summer burst out in the direction of blacks . . . and yet we do it seldom. . . . In short, let your own heart decide, and the capacity of your portmanteau. If you came in camel's hair, you would ...

— The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson - Volume 1 • Robert Louis Stevenson

... the arts of adulation, and, from laughing only to show that I was pleased, I now began to laugh when I wished to please. This was at first very difficult. I sometimes heard the story with dull indifference, and, not exalting myself to merriment by due gradations, burst out suddenly into an awkward noise, which was not always favourably interpreted. Sometimes I was behind the rest of the company, and lost the grace of laughing by delay, and sometimes, when I began at the right time, ...

— The Works of Samuel Johnson in Nine Volumes - Volume IV: The Adventurer; The Idler • Samuel Johnson

... burst out crying. I could not help it. He let me cry, and did not interfere. I was grateful for that. When at length I raised my ...

— The Flight of the Shadow • George MacDonald

... I burst out with these questions passionately, almost frantically. This was the first time I had had chance to demand ...

— Blindfolded • Earle Ashley Walcott

... weakness includes nearly the whole of Central America. Volcanoes in Costa Rica, Nicaragua, and Guatemala have been repeatedly active, some almost to the present time, many with destructive effect, and it should be no surprise to have some of them burst out with the same vigor and intensity as Mount Pelee ...

— Complete Story of the San Francisco Horror • Richard Linthicum

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