bursting

Adjective

(comparative more bursting, superlative most bursting)

(often followed by "to go to...") Urgently needing to urinate.
Can you tell me where the toilets are? I'm bursting.
The kid is bursting to go to the toilet.

Verb

Present participle of burst..

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I shall tell! cried Sonya, bursting into tears.
And bursting into tears she hid her face in her handkerchief and rushed from the room.
"My king!" he bellowed, bursting into the chamber.
They fired a shell weighing 485 lb, with a bursting charge of 17 lb.
From different sides came whistling sounds and the thud of cannon balls and bursting shells falling on the town.

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