to burst into tears
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2.4
- phrasal verb
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echarse a llorar
- I burst into tears.
You wrote something in your book that made me burst into tears this morning.
- You wrote something in your book that made me burst into tears this morning.
- My mum would always, always burst into tears and cry her eyes out.
- And man, I, I think half that room burst into tears.
- I remember I was on the street in Dublin shooting and burst into tears.
- People who, when they got the notice that their student loan debt is gone, burst into tears.
- And then I hugged him and we left, and we got to our car, and we burst into tears, both of us.
- And I got so upset that I couldn't talk to my boyfriend on the phone that I just burst into tears.
- Of course, when I tell the kids, they immediately burst into tears and are begging to stay, promising they will behave.
- And so I walk up and say I just had my vasectomy reversed, and she just burst into tears.
- So then I hit it again and then like realisation set in what had just happened and then I burst into tears.
- Her nurse, Celine goes up, listens to her chest, bursts into tears, runs out of the room, and she just never breathed again.
- And the second I saw that Ring of Fire around the black spot where the moon was obscuring our sun, I burst into tears.
- When you see the David by Michelangelo, you burst into tears because it's my, my God that came from man that's inspired.
- And you know, you just burst into tears and you know, you need to be with someone that that's quite a safe place to do that.
- And I just suddenly burst into tears and it just, it hit me, everything from the tape just, I mean, it punched me right in the face.
- So like decent level, he got beat and he burst into tears on the stage.
Examples
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The bride burst into tears and swore she was gonna have nightmares the rest of her life because of that dog.
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You wrote something in your book that made me burst into tears this morning.
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I think he will burst into tears.
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And I burst into tears.
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The poor guy burst into tears.
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I actually burst into tears.
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When he saw me, he fell on my neck and burst into tears.
Fiction book (1993) -
When she got back to the house, she felt so depressed she burst into tears.
Fiction book (1995) -
The younger boy burst into tears and ran to his mother, sobbing.
Fiction book (1993) -
The three girls were so frightened that they burst into tears upon entering the courthouse.
Synonyms
208
1.1
To cry and let tears fall because you feel sad or have strong feelings
111
3.9
To lose control of your feelings and cry or collapse
50
4.0
Suddenly start making a sound, like singing, laughing or crying
39
5.9
Cry or shout loudly and without control
15
1.0
To cry with short, noisy breaths
7
4.2
Cry for a long time because you feel very sad
5
4.3
Feeling strong emotion that makes you cry
3
7.6
Cry very loudly and for a long time
1
4.6
To make someone cry because of a strong feeling like sadness or joy
Antonyms
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'to suddenly begin crying' is directly derivable from the constituents: 'burst' (to happen suddenly or release), 'into' (change into a state), and 'tears' (crying). This verb + into + state construction is a regular, cross-linguistic pattern, so a B1 learner who knows the words should be able to understand the MWE.
Etymology
Burst into tears gives the image of something suddenly breaking and letting out a rush of liquid. Here burst is that sudden break and tears are the flow of crying, so the phrase means 'to suddenly begin crying'.