Dictionary

bursting en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /ˈbɜːstɪŋ/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• (US) audio
• /ˈbɝstɪŋ/ (General-American)

Meanings

1. Very eager (to do something).
   • I was bursting to tell him the secret.
2. (followed by "to go to...", often) Urgently needing to urinate.
   • Can you tell me where the toilets are? I'm bursting.
   • The kid is bursting to go to the toilet.
3. So full (with something) as almost to erupt.
   • The newly stocked refrigerator is bursting with fresh vegetables.
   • Her heart was bursting with repressed emotion.

Forms

Deriveds

upbursting · nonbursting · outbursting · burstingly · superbursting

Synonyms

busting

Translations (5)

fi halkeamaisillaan (urgently needing to urinate) · it bisogno impellente (urgently needing to urinate) · cmn 尿急 (urgently needing to urinate) · it impellenza (urgently needing to urinate) · it urgenza (urgently needing to urinate)

bursting en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈbɜːstɪŋ/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• (US) audio
• /ˈbɝstɪŋ/ (General-American)

Meanings

1. The act by which something bursts.
   • the burstings of balloons
   • The locomotive involved in the derailment of the 4.33 a.m. train from Ruabon to Barmouth on the night of October 6, due to the bursting of the banks of the Shropshire Union Canal near Llangollen, was 2-6-0 No. 6315; the position into which the locomotive fell so completely defied all attempts to re-rail it that it was cut up on the spot. 1946 January and February, “Notes and News: Locomotive Notes: G.W.R.”, in Railway Magazine, page 55:
   • Serious as was the flood damage in England, the bursting of some of the dykes on the coast of Holland resulted in an even more widespread and devastating inundation. 1953 April, “Devastation in Holland”, in Railway Magazine, page 217:

Forms

Deriveds

bursting pressure · pipe bursting

bursting en · VERB

Pronunciation

• /ˈbɜːstɪŋ/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• (US) audio
• /ˈbɝstɪŋ/ (General-American)

Meanings

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of burst
   form of burst

Deriveds

bursting point