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View synonyms for blurt out

blurt out



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Idioms and Phrases

Say abruptly or inadvertently, utter without thinking. For example, Unfortunately he blurted out how much he hated formal dinners just as his hostess walked in . [Late 1500s]
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Example Sentences

But as soon as I see her it seems ridiculous to blurt out a speech like that the first thing.

Demoralized, unstrung, they would blurt out the truth and so convict themselves.

Sometimes he thought that it would be more endurable to blurt out the truth and go into banishment.

Every word he uttered lashed her until she felt she must blurt out to him the thing she believed to be the truth.

I was minded to blurt out the fact that she was not my niece at all; that I had no authority over her in any way.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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