Bursting

Adjective

Definitions

1.AdjectiveVery eager (to do something).

"I was bursting to tell him the secret."

2.AdjectiveUrgently needing to urinate.

"Can you tell me where the toilets are? I'm bursting.; The kid is bursting to go to the toilet."

3.AdjectiveSo full (with something) as almost to erupt.

"The newly stocked refrigerator is bursting with fresh vegetables.; Her heart was bursting with repressed emotion."

4.Verbpresent participle and gerund of burst

5.NounThe act by which something bursts.

"the burstings of balloons"

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