Citations:burst


 * 1) (English verb)
 * 2) * (intransitive)
 * 3) ** ... in tearing out an enormous superannuated ash-tree, now grown quite corpulent, bursten, superfluous, but long a fixture in the soil, and not to be dislodged without revolution, - there was laid bare ...
 * 1843 Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 2, ch. 3, Landlord Edmund