The Collaborative International Dictionary
Breste \Bres"te\, v. t. & i. [imp. Brast; p. p. Brusten,
Borsten, Bursten.]
To burst. [Obs.]
--Chaucer.
Bursten \Burst"en\, p. p. of Burst, v. i. [Obs.]
Wiktionary
1 bursted; broken; ruptured. 2 Affected with a rupture or hernia. v
(context now rare English) (past participle of burst English).
Usage examples of "bursten".
He had ripped his collar off his neck in his haste to be gone ere she came in, and there it lay with bursten button-holes.
One after another she turned up to him the faces of the yellow, bursten flowers appealingly, fondling them lavishly all the while.
He delayeth only till his fingers be knit together behind the neck of the accursed Demon to draw the head of him forward until the bones of the neck or the breastbone be bursten asunder.
On the fifth night, it being the twenty-fourth of November, in the darkness of the third hour after midnight, the alarm was sounded and Corund summoned by a runner from the north with word that a sally was made from Eshgrar Ogo, and the lines bursten through in that quarter, and fighting going forward in the mirk.
One after another she turned up to him the faces of the yellow, bursten flowers appealingly, fondling them lavishly all the while.
He waked at midnight, and the fears of sin, As waters through a bursten dam, broke in.
In which there ran a rumble and a sough*, *groaning noise As though a storm should bursten every bough: And downward from an hill under a bent* *slope There stood the temple of Mars Armipotent, Wrought all of burnish'd steel, of which th' entry Was long and strait, and ghastly for to see.