Usually means: Releasing energy or contents suddenly.
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General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. bursting: Merriam-Webster
  2. bursting: Collins English Dictionary
  3. bursting: Vocabulary.com
  4. Bursting, bursting: Wordnik
  5. bursting: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. bursting: Wiktionary
  7. Bursting, bursting: Dictionary.com
  8. bursting: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Bursting: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Bursting: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. bursting: Rhymezone
  12. bursting: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. bursting: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  14. bursting: FreeDictionary.org
  15. bursting: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. bursting: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. bursting: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. bursting: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. bursting: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. bursting: PlanetMath Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. bursting: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Very eager (to do something).
adjective:  (often followed by "to go to...") Urgently needing to urinate.
adjective:  So full (with something) as almost to erupt.
noun:  The act by which something bursts.

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