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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

burst forth en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (intransitive) To erupt.
    • I am inventing a language which must necessarily burst forth from a very new poetics, that could be defined in a couple of words: Paint, not the thing, but the effect it produces. 1864, Stéphane Mallarmé, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
    • If Spring came but once in a century, instead of once a year, or burst forth with the sound of an earthquake, and not in silence, what wonder and expectation there would be in all hearts to behold the miraculous change! 1847, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Kavanagh:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
burst forth Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
burst forth Tense=Past lexicographic
bursts forth Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
bursting forth Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic

Translations (3)

ar اِنْبَثَقَ (to erupt, to emanate out of) · scn sbummicari (to erupt, to emanate out of) · mi kowhera (to erupt, to emanate out of)