bursting

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈbɝstɪŋ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈbɜːstɪŋ/

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• Hyphenation: burst‧ing

Adjective

bursting (comparative more bursting, superlative most bursting)

1. Very eager (to do something).

   I was bursting to tell him the secret.

2. (often followed by "to go to...") 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.

Synonyms

• busting

Derived terms

• burstingly
• nonbursting
• outbursting
• superbursting
• upbursting

 

Translations

urgently needing to urinate

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 尿急 (zh) (niàojí)

• Finnish: halkeamaisillaan (adverb)
• Italian: impellenza (it), urgenza (it), bisogno impellente

Verb

bursting

1. present participle and gerund of burst

Derived terms

• bursting point

Noun

bursting (plural burstings)

1. The act by which something bursts.

   the burstings of balloons

   • 1946 January and February, “Notes and News: Locomotive Notes: G.W.R.”, in Railway Magazine, page 55:

     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.

   • 1953 April, “Devastation in Holland”, in Railway Magazine, page 217:

     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.

Derived terms

• bursting pressure