What does bursting mean?
Bursting means Very eager (to do something)..
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/ˈbɝstɪŋ/ · adjective
Very eager (to do something)..
I was bursting to tell him the secret.
Can you tell me where the toilets are? I'm bursting.
The kid is bursting to go to the toilet.
The newly stocked refrigerator is bursting with fresh vegetables.
Her heart was bursting with repressed emotion.
the burstings of balloons
The locomotive involved in the derailment of the 4.33 a.m. train from Ruabon to Barmouth on the night of October 6, due to the bursting of the banks of the Shropshire Union Canal near Llangollen, was 2-6-0 No. 6315; the position into which the locomotive fell so completely defied all attempts to re-rail it that it was cut up on the spot.
Serious as was the flood damage in England, the bursting of some of the dykes on the coast of Holland resulted in an even more widespread and devastating inundation.
Use bursting when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Bursting means Very eager (to do something)..
Common synonyms include busting, explosive, exploding, detonating.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
I was bursting to tell him the secret.
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