"burst into tears" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: en-au-burst into tears.ogg [Australia] Forms: bursts into tears [present, singular, third-person], bursting into tears [participle, present], burst into tears [participle, past], burst into tears [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|burst<,,burst> into tears}} burst into tears (third-person singular simple present bursts into tears, present participle bursting into tears, simple past and past participle burst into tears)
  1. (idiomatic) To suddenly start crying or sobbing. Tags: idiomatic Coordinate_terms: melt into tears Translations (suddenly start crying): ἀναλύομαι (analúomai) (Ancient Greek), ῥήγνυμι (rhḗgnumi) (Ancient Greek), فجأة بدأ يبكي (Arabic), 突然哭起來 (Chinese Mandarin), 突然哭起来 (tūrán kū qǐlái) (Chinese Mandarin), najednou rozplakat se (Czech), in tranen uitbarsten (Dutch), ekplori (Esperanto), nutma puhkema (Estonian), puhjeta itkuun (Finnish), kyynelöityä (Finnish), éclater en sanglots (French), fondre en larmes (French), αναλύομαι (analýomai) (Greek), könnyekre fakad (Hungarian), könnyekben tör ki (Hungarian), elsírja magát (Hungarian), се расплаче (se rasplače) (Macedonian), rozpłakać się (Polish), romper a llorar (Spanish), entrarle una llorera [colloquial] (Spanish), brista ut i gråt (Swedish), brista ut i tårar (Swedish), (Vietnamese)
    Sense id: en-burst_into_tears-en-verb-NQS1AqQQ Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Mandarin terms with non-redundant manual transliterations

Inflected forms

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      "sense": "suddenly start crying",
      "word": "αναλύομαι"
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      "sense": "suddenly start crying",
      "word": "ἀναλύομαι"
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      "sense": "suddenly start crying",
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      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "suddenly start crying",
      "word": "könnyekben tör ki"
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      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "suddenly start crying",
      "word": "elsírja magát"
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      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "se rasplače",
      "sense": "suddenly start crying",
      "word": "се расплаче"
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      "code": "pl",
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      "sense": "suddenly start crying",
      "word": "rozpłakać się"
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      "sense": "suddenly start crying",
      "word": "romper a llorar"
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      "sense": "suddenly start crying",
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      "word": "entrarle una llorera"
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      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "suddenly start crying",
      "word": "brista ut i gråt"
    },
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      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "suddenly start crying",
      "word": "brista ut i tårar"
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      "sense": "suddenly start crying",
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