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 or hernia.

Etymologies

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From Middle English bursten, ibursten, from Old English borsten, ġeborsten, past participle of Old English berstan ("to burst"). More at burst.

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