BLURT OUT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does blurt out mean? 

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

1. utter impulsively

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• BLURT OUT (verb)

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 out" is one way to...):

mouth; speak; talk; utter; verbalise; verbalize (express in speech)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE

Sentence example:

They blurt out that there was a traffic accident

 Context examples 

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

(The Sea-Wolf, 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)