burst

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• intransitive verb To come open or fly apart suddenly or violently, especially from internal pressure.
• intransitive verb To explode.
• intransitive verb To be or seem to be full to the point of breaking open.
• intransitive verb To emerge, come forth, or arrive suddenly.
• intransitive verb To come apart or seem to come apart because of overwhelming emotion.
• intransitive verb To give sudden utterance or expression.
• intransitive verb To cause to burst: synonym: break.
• intransitive verb To exert strong pressure in order to force (something) open.
• intransitive verb To separate (a continuous form or printout) into individual sheets.
• noun A sudden outbreak or outburst; an explosion.
• noun The result of bursting, especially the explosion of a projectile or bomb on impact or in the air.
• noun The number of bullets fired from an automatic weapon by one pull of the trigger.
• noun A volley of bullets fired from an automatic weapon.
• noun An abrupt, intense increase; a rush.
• noun A period of intense activity.

from The Century Dictionary.

• In pin-pool billiards, to go beyond a score of 31; in ball-pool, to smash at the pyramid.
• noun A sudden disruption; a violent rending.
• noun A sudden explosion or shooting forth; a rush; an out-burst: as, a burst of applause; a burst of passion; “burst of thunder,”
• noun A rupture; a hernia.
• noun 4. A smart race; a spurt.
• noun A sudden opening to sight or view.
• noun A spree.
• To fly or break open as an effect of internal forces and with sudden violence; suffer a violent disruption; explode.
• Hence—2. Figuratively, to break or give way from violent pain or emotion: as, my head will burst; her heart burst with grief.
• To come or go suddenly; rush: as, the enemy in an instant burst upon us.
• To rend by force or violence (that which confines or retains); open suddenly and violently; cause to explode: as, to burst one's bonds; to burst a cannon.
• To break, in general.
• Synonyms (intransitive verb and t.) To split, separate, rend, tear.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• intransitive verb To fly apart or in pieces; of break open; to yield to force or pressure, especially to a sudden and violent exertion of force, or to pressure from within; to explode.
• intransitive verb To exert force or pressure by which something is made suddenly to give way; to break through obstacles or limitations; hence, to appear suddenly and unexpectedly or unaccountably, or to depart in such manner; -- usually with some qualifying adverb or preposition, as forth, out, away, into, upon, through, etc.
• noun A sudden breaking forth; a violent rending; an explosion.
• noun Any brief, violent exertion or effort; a spurt.
• noun rare A sudden opening, as of landscape; a stretch; an expanse.
• noun A rupture or hernia; a breach.
• transitive verb To break or rend by violence, as by an overcharge or by strain or pressure, esp. from within; to force open suddenly.
• transitive verb obsolete To break.
• transitive verb To produce as an effect of bursting.
• transitive verb See under Charge.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun An instance of, or the act of bursting.
• verb intransitive To break from internal pressure.
• verb transitive To cause to break from internal pressure.
• verb transitive To separate formfeed at perforation lines
• verb intransitive To enter or exit hurriedly and unexpectedly..

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• verb be in a state of movement or action
• verb burst outward, usually with noise
• verb force out or release suddenly and often violently something pent up
• noun the act of exploding or bursting
• verb come open suddenly and violently, as if from internal pressure