Bursted

Part of speech: verb, adjective

Definitions

1. Having suddenly broken or exploded; having emitted something forcefully by bursting; having expressed or displayed an intense emotion or action abruptly
2. Characterized by an abrupt rupture or explosion; propelled outward with force as if by an explosion; involved in a sudden, intense outburst of feeling or activity
3. Marked by a rapid or violent breaking open; having caused something to be released suddenly and energetically; experienced a spontaneous eruption of emotion or action

Etymology: "Bursted" is the regular past tense and past participle of "burst", which is a verb-and-adjective form meaning to break open suddenly. The base verb came into Middle English as "bresten" or "bersten", and before that Old English had "berstan", which descends from a Proto-Germanic root meaning to break, crack or split. That root reaches back to a Proto-Indo-European verb for splitting and snipping, so the core idea has stayed remarkably stable for thousands of years. The verb's kin are scattered across the Germanic languages: Dutch "barsten", Swedish "brista" and Danish "briste" all mean to burst or crack, and the same ancient root turns up in the Irish "bris", meaning to break. "Bursted" itself is simply the form English speakers build by adding the regular "-ed" ending, which is why it sits beside the older irregular "burst" in everyday speech.

Synonyms: burst, exploded, ruptured, popped, shattered

Antonyms: sealed, intact, closed, contained