BLURT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does blurt mean? 

• BLURT (verb)
  The verb BLURT has 1 sense:

1. utter impulsively

  Familiarity information: BLURT used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BLURT (verb)

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

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

blunder; blunder out; blurt; blurt out; ejaculate

Context example:

He blundered his stupid ideas

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 

Drawing out some books at the desk, and while the man was stamping the cards, Martin blurted out:-

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

“I don’t know what to say, Mr. Holmes,” he blurted out at last, with a very red face.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"Yes, plenty of work," Miller blurted out impatiently.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

“But I’ll stand my watch on board hereafter,” I blurted out a moment later.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

I felt quite excited over it, and blurted out:— Why, this beats even shorthand! May I hear it say something?

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Why, there's Copperfield, mother, he angrily retorted, pointing his lean finger at me, against whom all his animosity was levelled, as the prime mover in the discovery; and I did not undeceive him; there's Copperfield, would have given you a hundred pound to say less than you've blurted out!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

"He did not speak," she blurted out.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

"On the contrary, he was a moral prig," Haythorne blurted out, with apparently undue warmth.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

“Because you are stronger,” I managed to blurt out.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

"And I am, too," she blurted out.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)