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Synonyms for burst
Synonyms for burst: bust, split, explosion, fit and outburst. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 5 synonyms for burst
Interchangeable with burst, one per sense
Audited under burst's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one burst carries in that sense.
- bustverb, in the sense "break open or apart suddenly and forcefully"
- splitverb, in the sense "come open suddenly and violently, as if from internal pressure"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name burst as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
Two directions, one standard: two audited under burst and three under the partner word. Nothing here was expanded out of a thesaurus.
break open or apart suddenly and forcefully
The dam burst.
The true synonym
bust
Same sentence, swapped: The dam bust.
Close but different
The game shows these three beside the answer. Each is a real word with a real meaning and none of them fits the slot burst is in above, which is the point the reason line makes.
- erupt
- abound
- smash
come open suddenly and violently, as if from internal pressure
The bubble burst.
The true synonym
split
Same sentence, swapped: The bubble split.
Close but different
The game offers these three alongside the answer. They are close enough to tempt and wrong enough to be wrong, which is the whole design.
- collapse
- smash
- ladder
Where burst turns up in the game
burst is the word under test in two puzzles, spread across Tier 2, Treeline. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in four other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzles where burst is the trap
- bearverb, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is wear, in the sense "have on one's person", and burst is one of the three tiles that lose.
- splitverb, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is part, in the sense "discontinue an association or relation", and burst is on the board beside it.
- fussnoun, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is trouble, in the sense "an angry disturbance", so burst is there to be ruled out.
- fussverb, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is fret, in the sense "worry unnecessarily or excessively", so burst is there to be ruled out.
Play burst
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so burst reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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A reason under every answer, not just a right answer
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. burst carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.