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bursting
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| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | breaking open |
| Synonyms: | breaking, erupting, exploding |
| Antonyms: | calm, peaceful, stable |
| Main Entry: | burst |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | blow up, break out |
| Synonyms: | barge, blow, break, crack, detonate, discharge, disintegrate, erupt, explode, fly open, fracture, fragment, gush forth, perforate, pierce, pop, prick, puncture, rend asunder, run, rupture, rush, shatter, shiver, splinter, split, spout, tear apart |
| Main Entry: | explosive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | volatile, dangerous |
| Synonyms: | at the boiling point, bursting, charged, consequential, convulsive, detonating, detonative, ebullient, eruptive, fiery, forceful, frenzied, fulminant, fulminating, hazardous, impetuous, meteoric, overwrought, perilous, raging, rampant, stormy, tense, touchy, ugly, uncontrollable, unstable, vehement, violent, wild |
| Antonyms: | calm, peaceful, safe |
| Main Entry: | full |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | brimming, filled |
| Synonyms: | abounding, abundant, adequate, awash, big, bounteous, brimful, burdened, bursting, chock-full, chockablock, competent, complete, crammed, crowded, entire, extravagant, glutted, gorged, imbued, impregnated, intact, jam-packed, jammed, jammed full, laden, lavish, loaded, overflowing, packed, packed like sardines, padded, plenteous, plentiful, plethoric, profuse, replete, running over, sated, satiated, satisfied, saturated, stocked, stuffed, sufficient, suffused, surfeited, teeming, voluminous, weighted |
| Antonyms: | empty, incomplete, void |
| Main Entry: | outbreak |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sudden happening |
| Synonyms: | beginning, blowup, brawl, break, breaking, burst, bursting, commencement, commotion, convulsion, crack, crash, dawn, detonation, discharge, disorder, disruption, ebullition, effervescence, epidemic, eruption, explosion, fit, flare-up, flash, fury, gush, gushing, insurrection, irruption, mutiny, onset, outburst, outpouring, paroxysm, plague, rebellion, rending, revolution, roar, sally, sortie, spasm, spurt, storm, sundering, surge, thunder, tumult, uprising, volley |
| Antonyms: | conclusion, end, finale |
| Main Entry: | stuffed |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | crammed |
| Synonyms: | bursting, crowded, filled, full, glutted, gorged, jam-packed, jammed, loaded, overflowing, packed, packed like sardines, running over, satisfied, saturated, tight |
| Main Entry: | teeming |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | abundant, full |
| Synonyms: | alive, brimful, brimming, bristling, bursting, chock-full, crammed, crawling, filled, fruitful, multitudinous, numerous, overflowing, packed, plentiful, populous, pregnant, replete, rife, swarming, thick, thronged |
| Antonyms: | empty, lacking, needing, wanting |
| Main Entry: | thick |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | crowded, packed |
| Synonyms: | abundant, brimming, bristling, bursting, chock-full, close, compact, compressed, concentrated, condensed, considerable, covered, crammed, crawling with, dense, frequent, full, great, heaped, impenetrable, impervious, inspissated, like sardines, localized, multitudinous, numerous, populated, populous, profuse, rank, replete, several, solid, swarming, teeming, tight |
| Antonyms: | thin, uncrowded |
| Main Entry: | tumescent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | swollen |
| Synonyms: | bloated, bulging, bulgy, bursting, distended, distent, enlarged, expanding, inflated, puffed, puffy, tumid |
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