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Bursting vs Athirst - What's the difference?

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Bursting is a related term of athirst.


As adjectives the difference between bursting and athirst

is that bursting is very eager (to do something) while athirst is (archaic) thirsty.

As a verb bursting

is .

As a noun bursting

is the act by which something bursts.

bursting

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Very eager (to do something).
    • I was bursting to tell him the secret.
  • 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

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which something bursts.
    • the burstings of balloons

    athirst

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (archaic) Thirsty.
  • * 1851 , Herman Melville, Moby-Dick :
    • 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.
  • * Charlotte Brontë, Shirley
    • To this extenuated spectre, perhaps, a crumb is not thrown once a year, but when ahungered and athirst to famine—when all humanity has forgotten the dying tenant of a decaying house—Divine Mercy remembers the mourner
  • (figuratively) Eager or extremely desirous (for something).

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