Overburst

Quick meaning: Overburst is a noun meaning (rare) An excessively intense burst; a superburst.

Meaning

(rare) An excessively intense burst; a superburst.

Example Sentences

I put an overburst above where I think the belt-fed gun is sighted.

Factories enjoying overbursts of good times were in evidence and no one had to pity the unemployed, because of the absence of idle people.

It is as if "the path at the instant when he came in sight of me," she says, "had been a swamp ouf of which he had emerged without having been forewarned that he was about to enter light...it was not love... just a sudden overburst of light, illumination (p. 163).

On the less inundated ground the danger continued, the wreck stuff assuming here partly the character of missiles, a sudden overburst of the sea, half carrying on the water, half flinging through the air great sticks of wood upon the crew. Several of the men were knocked down by these flying pieces.

Word Forms

• overbursts

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include superburst, hyperexplosion, superoutburst, upburst, upbursting, hyper explosion.

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