Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Affected with a rupture or hernia.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- obsolete p. p. of
burst , v. i.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Past participle of
burst . - adjective
Bursted ;broken ;ruptured . - adjective Affected with a
rupture orhernia .
Etymologies
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Examples
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And she wept sore and cried out, from a bursten liver and an aching bosom, “Where are ye and where is your father?”
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When thou pissest thou swishes; if thou turd thou gruntest like a bursten wine skin or an elephant transmogrified.
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Four old Turkey-worked chairs, bursten-bottomed, the stuffing staring out.
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
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Is from his top torn, when a shoure poured from a bursten cloud,
The Iliad of Homer 2003
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After all, one must be able to look on blood and bursten bowels calmly: even with a certain thrill.
The Plumed Serpent 2003
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Human cowardice and beastliness, a smell of blood, a nauseous whiff of bursten bowels!
The Plumed Serpent 2003
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This one thing of doing for them by 'underselling all people,' and filling our own bursten pockets by the road; and turning over all care for any 'population,' or human or divine consideration, except cash only, to the winds, with a
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843 Various
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Her head must go first, and her feet, and the bursten shoe, must go last.
The Idler Magazine, Volume III, June 1893 An Illustrated Monthly Various
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The Philadelphienne dressyth not in garments like unto Joseph, his cote of manie colors, nethir dothe shee put on clothes whych look from afar off like geographie-mapps, where the hues are as well assortyd as iff a paint-mill had bursten and scattered the piggments all pele-mele into everlastynge miscellayneous scatteratioun.
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Like spattering showers from a bursten sky-rocket dropping
Week-night Service David Herbert 1916
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