to-burst

English

Alternative forms

  • to-brast, to-broste, to-brist, to barst, to-bost

Etymology

From Middle English tobursten, tobresten, from Old English tōberstan (“to burst asunder, shatter”), from Proto-West Germanic *tebrestan, *tuʀbrestan, *twiʀbrestan, from Proto-Germanic *twizbrestaną (“to break in two, burst asunder”), equivalent to to- (“apart”) +‎ burst. Cognate with Old Saxon tebrestan, German zerbersten.

Verb

to-burst (third-person singular simple present to-bursts, present participle to-bursting, simple past to-burst, past participle to-burst or to-bursten)

  1. (transitive, obsolete) To burst or break in pieces.
  2. (intransitive, obsolete) To burst apart; break in pieces.

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