burst

From LSJ

παρθενικὴν δὲ γαμεῖν, ἵνα ἤθεα κεδνὰ διδάξῃς → take thee a maiden to wife, and teach her ways of discretion

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verb transitive

break: P. and V. ἀπορρηγνύναι, καταρρηγνύναι, καταγνύναι, ῥηγνύναι (P. usually compounded); see break.

verb intransitive

P. and V. διαρρήγνυσθαι, ῥήγνυσθαι.

of a storm: V. ἐκπνεῖν.

Met., come on: P. and V. ἐπέρχεσθαι.

when the storm bursts: V. σκηπτοῦ 'πιόντος (Euripides, Rhesus 674).

burst forth: V. ἐκρήγνυσθαι.

burst forth in anger: V. ἐξαναζεῖν χόλον.

so that a bloody foam burst forth from the sea: V. ὡς αἱματηρὸν πέλανον ἐξανθεῖν ἅλος (Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris 300).

burst in or into: Ar. and P. εἰσπηδᾶν (εἰς, acc.), V. εἰσορμᾶσθαι (acc.), ἐπεισπίπτειν (acc. or dat.) (also Xen. but rare P.), εἰσπαίειν (absol.), P. and V. εἰσπίπτειν (P. εἰς, acc.; V. dat. alone), Ar. ἐπεισπαίειν (εἰς, acc.), ἐπεισπηδᾶν (absol.), Ar. and V. ἐμπίπτειν (dat. or εἰς, acc.).

bursting into tears: V. δακρύων ῥήξασα… νάματα (Sophocles, Trachiniae 919).

burst out, rush out: P. and V. ἐξορμᾶσθαι, ἐκπίπτειν.

burst out laughing: P. ἐκγελᾶν.

burst out into (lamentation, etc.): P. and V. καθίστασθαι (εἰς, acc.).

burst out into eruptions (of the skin): P. ἕλκεσιν ἐξανθεῖν (Thuc. 2, 49).

the whole plot would have burst over the city like a torrent: P. ὥσπερ χειμάρρους ἂν ἅπαν τὸ πρᾶγμα εἰς τὴν πόλιν εἰσέπεσεν (Dem. 278).

substantive

when in a burst of passion she passed within the antechamber: V. ὅπως γὰρ ὀργῇ χρωμένη παρῆλθ' ἔσω θυρῶνος (Sophocles, Oedipus Rex 1241).