different between violate vs burst

English

Etymology

From Latin violatus, past participle of violare (“treat with violence, whether bodily or mental”), from vis (“strength, power, force, violence”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?va???le?t/

Verb

violate (third-person singular simple present violates, present participle violating, simple past and past participle violated)

1. (transitive) To break or disregard (a rule or convention).

   Antonyms: comply, obey

2. (transitive, euphemistic) To rape.
3. (transitive, prison slang) To cite (a person) for a parole violation.
   • 2009, Shakti Belway, Bearing Witness (page 12)

     If you don't have a job, you can't pay the money, then you get violated and have to go back to prison.

   • 2014, Juanita Díaz-Cotto, Chicana Lives and Criminal Justice: Voices from El Barrio (page 165)

     Estela: Well, they'd take me to jail, I'd violate, and I go to prison. And maybe I get violated for six months, eight months . . . maybe 30 days, 60 days . . . You know, whatever the parole officer recommended for me, I got.

Related terms

• violation

Derived terms

• violable
• violative

Translations

Further reading

• violate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• violate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Italian

Verb

violate

1. second-person plural present of violare
2. second-person plural imperative of violare
3. feminine plural past participle of violare

Anagrams

• evitalo, levatoi, olivate, oliveta, voliate

Latin

Verb

viol?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of viol?

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)

1. (intransitive) To break from internal pressure.

2. (transitive) To cause to break from internal pressure.

3. (transitive, obsolete) To cause to break by any means.
   • He burst his lance against the sand below.

4. (transitive) To separate (printer paper) at perforation lines.

5. (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.

6. (intransitive) To erupt; to change state suddenly as if bursting.

   The flowers burst into bloom on the first day of spring.
7. (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.

8. (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)

1. An act or instance of bursting.

   The bursts of the bombs could be heard miles away.

2. 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!"
3. A series of shots fired from an automatic firearm.
4. (military) The explosion of a bomb or missile.

   a ground burst; a surface burst

5. (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)

1. bristle
2. gable

Declension

Related terms

• bursti
• bursta

Old High German

Alternative forms

• borst

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *burstiz.

Noun

burst n

1. bristle

Descendants

• Middle High German: burst, borst, burste, borste
  • Central Franconian:

    Hunsrik: Berst

    Luxembourgish: Buuscht, Biischt

  • East Central German:

    Erzgebirgisch: bèrschd

  • German: Borste, Bürste

Old Norse

Etymology

from Proto-Germanic *burstiz

Noun

burst f

1. bristle

Declension

References

1. Köbler, Gerhard, Altnordisches Wörterbuch, (4. Auflage) 2014