Bursting

Definitions

The act by which something bursts.

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

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