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cloudburst
English
Alternative forms
- cloud-burst
Etymology
cloud +? burst
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /?kla?d?b?st/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?kla?d?b??st/
- Hyphenation: cloud?burst
Noun
cloudburst (plural cloudbursts)
- A sudden heavy rainstorm.
- 1899, Edith Wharton, "A Cup of Cold Water" in The Greater Inclination:
- [B]ut the sound . . . expressed an utter abandonment to grief; not the cloud-burst of some passing emotion, but the slow down-pour of a whole heaven of sorrow.
- 1936 Aug. 17, "Miscellany," Time (retrieved 20 May 2014):
- In Uniontown, Pa., John Walchesky & family rushed from their house when lightning set it afire, rushed in again when a cloudburst put out the blaze.
- 2007 Feb. 25, Norman Howard, "Devotion, chapter 1" (book excerpt), New York Times (retrieved 20 May 2014):
- [H]e walked across the lawn, wet from a fleeting late-afternoon cloudburst, the first rain in a month.
- 1899, Edith Wharton, "A Cup of Cold Water" in The Greater Inclination:
Synonyms
- cloudbust
Translations
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burst
English
Etymology
From Middle English bersten, from Old English berstan, from Proto-Germanic *brestan? (compare West Frisian boarste, Dutch barsten, Swedish brista), from Proto-Indo-European *b?res- (“to burst, break, crack, split, separate”) (compare Irish bris (“to break”)), enlargement of *b?reHi- (“to snip, split”). More at brine. Also cognate to debris.
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /b?st/
- (UK) IPA(key): /b??st/
- Rhymes: -??(r)st
Verb
burst (third-person singular simple present bursts, present participle bursting, simple past burst or (archaic) brast or (nonstandard) bursted, past participle burst or (rare) bursten or (nonstandard) bursted)
- (intransitive) To break from internal pressure.
- (transitive) To cause to break from internal pressure.
- (transitive, obsolete) To cause to break by any means.
- He burst his lance against the sand below.
- (transitive) To separate (printer paper) at perforation lines.
- (intransitive) To enter or exit hurriedly and unexpectedly.
- 1913, Mariano Azuela, The Underdogs, translated by E. MunguÍa, Jr.
- Like hungry dogs who have sniffed their meat, the mob bursts in, trampling down the women who sought to bar the entrance with their bodies.
- 1913, Mariano Azuela, The Underdogs, translated by E. MunguÍa, Jr.
- (intransitive) To erupt; to change state suddenly as if bursting.
- The flowers burst into bloom on the first day of spring.
- (transitive) To produce as an effect of bursting.
- to burst a hole through the wall
- 1856, Eleanor Marx-Aveling (translator), Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary, Part III Chapter X
- He entered Maromme shouting for the people of the inn, burst open the door with a thrust of his shoulder, made for a sack of oats, emptied a bottle of sweet cider into the manger, and again mounted his nag, whose feet struck fire as it dashed along.
- (transitive) To interrupt suddenly in a violent or explosive manner; to shatter.
Quotations
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:burst.
Coordinate terms
- split, crack
Derived terms
Related terms
- bust
Translations
Noun
burst (plural bursts)
- An act or instance of bursting.
- The bursts of the bombs could be heard miles away.
- A sudden, often intense, expression, manifestation or display.
- Synonym: spurt
- 1860/1861, Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
- "It's my wedding-day," cried Biddy, in a burst of happiness, "and I am married to Joe!"
- A series of shots fired from an automatic firearm.
- (military) The explosion of a bomb or missile.
- a ground burst; a surface burst
- (archaic) A drinking spree.
Derived terms
Translations
Anagrams
- Strub, strub, sturb, trubs
Icelandic
Etymology
From Old Norse burst, from Proto-Germanic *burstiz.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /p?r?st/
- Rhymes: -?r?st
Noun
burst f (genitive singular burstar, nominative plural burstir)
- bristle
- gable
Declension
Related terms
- bursti
- bursta
Old High German
Alternative forms
- borst
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *burstiz.
Noun
burst n
- bristle
Descendants
- Middle High German: burst, borst, burste, borste
- Central Franconian:
- Hunsrik: Berst
- Luxembourgish: Buuscht, Biischt
- East Central German:
- Erzgebirgisch: bèrschd
- German: Borste, Bürste
- Central Franconian:
Old Norse
Etymology
from Proto-Germanic *burstiz
Noun
burst f
- bristle
Declension
References
- Köbler, Gerhard, Altnordisches Wörterbuch, (4. Auflage) 2014
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