different between bursting vs athirst

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?b?st??/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?b??st??/
• Hyphenation: burst?ing

Adjective

bursting (comparative more bursting, superlative most bursting)

1. Very eager (to do something).

   I was bursting to tell him the secret.

2. (often followed by "to go to...") Urgently needing to urinate.

   Can you tell me where the toilets are? I'm bursting.

   The kid is bursting to go to the toilet.

Synonyms

• busting

Translations

Verb

bursting

1. present participle of burst

Derived terms

• bursting point

Noun

bursting (plural burstings)

1. The act by which something bursts.

   the burstings of balloons

English

Etymology

Old English ofþyrst, past participle of ofþyrstan (“to smart from thirst”), equivalent to a- (“of”, Etymology 8) +? thirst (verb).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?????st/
• Rhymes: -??(?)st

Adjective

athirst (comparative more athirst, superlative most athirst)

1. (archaic) Thirsty.
   • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick, Chapter 1,^[1]

     Should you ever be athirst in the great American desert, try this experiment, if your caravan happen to be supplied with a metaphysical professor. Yes, as every one knows, meditation and water are wedded for ever.

2. (figuratively) Eager or extremely desirous (for something).
   • 1817, John Keats, “Sonnet (Written on a blank space at the end of Chaucer’s tale of ‘The Floure And The Leafe’”^[2]

     I, that forever feel athirst for glory,

     Could at this moment be content to lie

     Meekly upon the grass, as those whose sobbings

     Were heard of none beside the mournful robins.

   • 1878, Algernon Charles Swinburne, “Ave Atque Vale (In Memory of Charles Baudelaire)” in Poems and Ballads, Second Series, Stanza IV,^[3]

     O sleepless heart and sombre soul unsleeping,

     That were athirst for sleep and no more life

     And no more love, for peace and no more strife!

   • 1913, Rabindranath Tagore, The Gardener, translated from the Bengali by the author, 5,^[4]

     I am restless. I am athirst for far-away things.

     My soul goes out in a longing to touch the skirt of the dim distance.

Anagrams

• ratshit, rattish, tartish, tirthas