Bursted vs Blasted - What's the difference?
bursted | blasted |
(nonstandard) (burst)
An instance of, or the act of bursting .
A series of shots fired from an automatic firearm.
To break from internal pressure.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=6 To cause to break from internal pressure.
(obsolete) To cause to break by any means.
* Shakespeare
* Fairfax
To separate formfeed at perforation lines.
To enter or exit hurriedly and unexpectedly.
* 1856 : (Gustave Flaubert), (Madame Bovary), Part III Chapter X, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling
* 1913 , (Mariano Azuela), The Underdogs, translated by E. MunguÍa, Jr.
To produce as an effect of bursting.
(blast)
Which has been subjected to an explosion.
Which has been subjected to violent gusts of wind.
(slang, slightly, dated) Accursed; damned.
(heraldry) Whose branches bear no leaves; leafless.
Intoxicated, drunk.
As verbs the difference between bursted and blasted
is that bursted is past tense of burst while blasted is past tense of blast.As an adjective blasted is
which has been subjected to an explosion.As an adverb blasted is
damned; extremely.bursted
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Verb
(head)burst
English
(wikipedia burst)Noun
(en noun)- The bursts of the bombs could be heard miles away.
Derived terms
* cloudburstVerb
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- You will not pay for the glasses you have burst ?
- He burst his lance against the sand below.
- 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.
- 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.
- to burst a hole through the wall
Quotations
* (English Citations of "burst")Derived terms
* burst forth * burst into flame * burst out * burst someone's bubbleblasted
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Verb
(head)Adjective
(-)- The remains of the blasted tank were testament to the power of the landmine it had hit.
- I’ve tried for 2 hours to make this blasted part fit, and it still won’t go in.
- Dude, we got fucking blasted last night.
