burst out laughing

English

Pronunciation

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Verb

burst out laughing (third-person singular simple present bursts out laughing, present participle bursting out laughing, simple past and past participle burst out laughing)

1. (idiomatic, intransitive) To start laughing suddenly and intensely.

Translations

suddenly start laughing intensely

• Dutch: in lachen uitbarsten
• Finnish: purskahtaa nauruun
• French: éclater de rire (fr)
• Hungarian: nevetésben tör ki (hu)
• Icelandic: skellihlæja
• Malayalam: പൊട്ടിച്ചിരിക്കുക (poṭṭiccirikkuka)
• Polish: pękać ze śmiechu (pl) impf
• Portuguese: explodir em risadas
• Russian: разрази́ться сме́хом pf (razrazítʹsja sméxom), расхохота́ться (ru) pf (rasxoxotátʹsja)
• Spanish: reírse a carcajadas
• Swedish: brista ut i skratt
• Turkish: kahkahaya boğulmak, kahkahayı basmak, kahkahayı patlatmak