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burst | crump |

As a noun burst

is an instance of, or the act of bursting .

As a verb burst

is to break from internal pressure.

As a proper noun crump is

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burst

English

(wikipedia burst)

Noun

(en noun)
  • An instance of, or the act of bursting .
    • The bursts of the bombs could be heard miles away.
  • A series of shots fired from an automatic firearm.

    • Derived terms

    * cloudburst

    Verb

  • To break from internal pressure.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
    • , chapter=6 citation , passage=‘[…] I remember a lady coming to inspect St. Mary's Home where I was brought up and seeing us all in our lovely Elizabethan uniforms we were so proud of, and bursting into tears all over us because “it was wicked to dress us like charity children”. […]’.}}
  • To cause to break from internal pressure.
  • (obsolete) To cause to break by any means.
  • * Shakespeare
    • You will not pay for the glasses you have burst ?
  • * Fairfax
    • He burst his lance against the sand below.
  • 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
    • 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.
  • * 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.
  • To produce as an effect of bursting.
    • to burst a hole through the wall

    Quotations

    * (English Citations of "burst")

    Derived terms

    * burst forth * burst into flame * burst out * burst someone's bubble

    Related terms

    * bust

    crump

    English

    Etymology 1

    Anglo-Saxon (crumb) stooping, bent down, akin to Old High German chrumb, (etyl) krumm, (etyl) krum, and English cramp.

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (UK, Scotland, dialect) Hard or crusty; dry baked
    • a crump loaf
  • (obsolete) crooked; bent
  • * Jeremy Taylor
    • Crooked backs and crump shoulders.

    Etymology 2

    Onomatopoeic.English onomatopoeias

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The sound of a muffled explosion.
  • * 1929 , Robert Graves, Goodbye to All That
    • [hymn] "To an inheritance incorruptible . . . Through faith unto salvation, Ready to be revealed at the last trump." For "trump" we always used to sing "crump." A crump was German five-point-nine shell, and "the last crump" would be the end of the War.
  • * 1999 , Kate Atkinson, Behind the Scenes at the Museum
    • Crump , crack! A shell exploded near them and the whole aircraft yawned to port as if somebody had punched it through the sky.
  • * 2000 , Richard Woodman, The Darkening Sea
    • Above this grey skyline slowly lifting clouds of dirty smoke rose into the morning air as the salvoes of Japanese shells exploded with a delayed crump .
  • * 2008 , Paul Wood, BBC News. Taking cover on Sderot front line
    • "Now you can see what life is like for us here," said Yakov Shoshani, raising his voice to make himself heard over the sound of a loud crump .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To produce such a sound.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2007, date=September 28, author=William Grimes, title=In Middle Leg of the Race, the Prize Was Italy, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=“Mortars crumped , and from the high ground to the east and south came the shriek of 88-millimeter shells, green fireballs that whizzed through the dunes at half a mile a second, trailing golden plumes of dust.” }}