Word Type

Verb

Noun

The word "burst" can be used as verb and noun.

Word Relationships

Coordinate Terms

crack split

Derived Terms

X-ray burst aburst afterburst air burst air-burst airburst bank-bursting bird burst black and burst budburst burst a blood vessel burst at the seams burst forth burst in burst into burst into flame burst into flames burst into flower burst into tears burst mode burst noise burst out burst out laughing burst someone's bubble burst up burstability burstable burster bursting pressure burstlet burstwise burstwort bursty circumburst cloud burst cloud-burst cloudburst colorburst damburst downburst extinction burst fast radio burst fit to burst flavor burst forburst gamma-ray burst groundburst inburst interburst intraburst last burst of fire macroburst mergeburst microburst miniburst on the burst outburst overburst postburst preburst radio burst rainburst reburst rockburst rotor burst shellburst starburst strain burst sunburst superburst thunderburst unburst upburst

Etymologically Related To

brine

Broader Terms (Hypernyms)

activity alter bound break change change integrity change of integrity come apart emerge express emotion express feelings fall apart feature fire firing happening have jump leap modify natural event occurrence occurrent separate split up spring

Instance Of

village

Type Of (IsA)

activity village

Manner Of

break emerge jump

Related Terms

bost bust

Related Terms

automatic break bursting bust display enter exit expression firearm formfeed hurriedly instance intense manifestation perforation pressure shots sudden unexpectedly

Similar Terms

break cave in collapse fall in founder give give way split

Synonym Network

abound blaze blowout blowup breach break break open breakage bust cloudburst collapse discharge downpour explode explosion fracture fusillade outburst rupture salvo shatter

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.