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BLURT OUT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does blurt out mean?
• BLURT OUT (verb)
The verb BLURT OUT has 1 sense:
Familiarity information: BLURT OUT used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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)
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