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BLURT

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 I. (verb) 

Verb forms

Present simple: I / you / we / they blurt  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation ... he / she / it blurts  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

Past simple: blurted  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

Past participle: blurted  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

-ing form: blurting  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

Sense 1

Meaning:

Utter impulsivelyplay

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

Credits

 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)




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