What is another word for burst upon?

Pronunciation: [bˈɜːst əpˌɒn] (IPA)

When we talk about something or someone abruptly entering our lives or a particular moment, we often use the phrase "burst upon." However, there are several other synonyms you can use to convey the same meaning. You could use "suddenly appear," "emerge," "spring up," "arrive unexpectedly," "suddenly come into view," "burst forth," or "appear out of nowhere." Each of these synonyms conveys a suddenness, a surprise, or a dramatic entrance, much like the original phrase "burst upon." By using these synonyms, you can add variety and freshness to your writing while still conveying the same sense of urgency.

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What are the hypernyms for Burst upon?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

Famous quotes with Burst upon

  • Although I had arrived in total darkness the light of truth at once burst upon my mind and I perceived most clearly that the republicans had overreached themselves.
    Francis Bond Head
  • In a flash I knew that the word was the name of the process that was going on in my head. This was my first conscious perception of an abstract idea.The beautiful truth burst upon my mind — I felt that there were invisible lines stretched between my spirit and the spirits of others.
    Helen Keller
  • The Benthamic standard of “the greatest happiness” was that which I had always been taught to apply; I was even familiar with an abstract discussion of it, forming an episode in an unpublished dialogue on Government, written by my father on the Platonic model. Yet in the first pages of Bentham it burst upon me with all the force of novelty. What thus impressed me was the chapter in which Bentham passed judgment on the common modes of reasoning in morals and legislation, deduced from phrases like “law of nature,” “right reason,” “the moral sense,” “natural rectitude,” and the like, and characterized them as dogmatism in disguise, imposing its sentiments upon others under cover of sounding expressions which convey no reason for the sentiment, but set up the sentiment as its own reason. It had not struck me before, that Bentham’s principle put an end to all this. The feeling rushed upon me, that all previous moralists were superseded, and that here indeed was the commencement of a new era in thought.
    Jeremy Bentham

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