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BLURT
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they blurt ... he / she / it blurts
Past simple: blurted
Past participle: blurted
-ing form: blurting
Sense 1
Meaning:
Utter impulsively
Example:
He blundered his stupid ideas
Synonyms:
blunder; blunder out; blurt; blurt out; ejaculate
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Hypernyms (to "blurt" is one way to...):
mouth; speak; talk; utter; verbalise; verbalize (express in speech)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE
Context examples:
"You see, she doesn't want to have anything to do with you," Norman blurted out, starting on with her.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
But I'd travel faster with you just the same, was what he wanted to blurt out, as he caught a vision of a world without end of sunlit spaces and starry voids through which he drifted with her, his arm around her, her pale gold hair blowing about his face.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
He announced that he had a way of finding out whom the yellow car belonged to, and then he blurted out that a couple of months ago his wife had come from the city with her face bruised and her nose swollen.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
