burst forth

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burst forth (third-person singular simple present bursts forth, present participle bursting forth, simple past and past participle burst forth)

  1. (intransitive) To erupt.
    • 1864, Stéphane Mallarmé, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
      I am inventing a language which must necessarily burst forth from a very new poetics, that could be defined in a couple of words: Paint, not the thing, but the effect it produces.
    • 1847, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Kavanagh:
      If Spring came but once in a century, instead of once a year, or burst forth with the sound of an earthquake, and not in silence, what wonder and expectation there would be in all hearts to behold the miraculous change!

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