blurt
Americanverb (used with object)
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blurts,
present (3rd person singular)
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blurted,
past participle, past
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blurting
present participle
noun
verb
Other Word Forms
Inflected Forms
Participles
Conjugated Forms
Present
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blurtsimple
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blurtssimple
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have blurtedperfect
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has blurtedperfect
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am blurtingprogressive
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are blurtingprogressive
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is blurtingprogressive
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have been blurtingperfect progressive
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has been blurtingperfect progressive
Past
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blurtedsimple
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had blurtedperfect
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was blurtingprogressive
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were blurtingprogressive
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had been blurtingperfect progressive
Future
Etymology
Origin of blurt
First recorded in 1565–75; apparently imitative
Explanation
If you blurt something out, you're speaking abruptly and without thinking about what you're saying. Usually, when you blurt something, you end up regretting it. Saying something without considering your words can end up making you feel stupid or hurting someone's feelings — just imagine what might happen if you were to blurt out what you really think about your grandmother's cooking. The best thing about the word blurt is that it's onomatopoeic, or a word that sounds exactly like what it means.
Vocabulary lists containing blurt
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Example Sentences
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Sometimes Marten and Gordon would abruptly blurt things out from the dock when they took issue with the evidence.
From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2025
Any mind blurt or ridiculous thought that minnowed behind our eyeballs Midjourney absorbed and spat out.
From Slate ● Feb. 4, 2025
She didn't blurt out anything crazy or storm out of the room; however, she was devastated.
From Salon ● Nov. 9, 2023
“You don’t just blurt out these statements without any responsibility to them.”
From Los Angeles Times ● May 14, 2023
“We’ll tell her what happened in Delia Dell. That will make her curious. Then, if she knows something, maybe she’ll just blurt it out.”
From "Chasing Vermeer" by Blue Balliett
When the little boy in Hans Christian Andersen’s “The Emperor’s New Clothes” blurts out that the emperor is naked, he says what people already knew.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 2, 2025
“I want to be in a normal place!” she blurts out in one of their last conversations, almost as if she were a musical protagonist about to break into song.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 14, 2025
When the woman at the agency reveals that all mortgage-backed bonds get AAA ratings, she blurts out that if she doesn’t give the banks the ratings they want, they’ll take their business elsewhere.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 11, 2025
An easy, breezy recommendation, “Eleanor the Great” makes only one stumble, a scene that blurts its themes outright, but I suppose that’s in keeping with its leading lady’s big mouth.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 24, 2025
“What’s going on with you and Tyler?” she blurts out at sit-up twenty-two.
From "A Good Kind of Trouble" by Lisa Moore Ramée
Then he blurted: “I wish we had never had camp that summer.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 18, 2026
That this didn’t happen has sparked a back-and-forth about culpability, with Deadline reporting BAFTA’s assurance that it made the BBC and the broadcast’s producers aware that the slur was audible shortly after Davidson blurted it.
From Salon ● Mar. 1, 2026
Soon after, the star blurted out cooler gas measuring a temperature of 10,000 Kelvin moving super-slow at 70 kilometres per second.
From Space Scoop ● Nov. 19, 2025
"Villa might actually get relegated," one security guard outside the press room blurted out afterwards.
From BBC ● Mar. 23, 2025
“Yes, Gospozha,” he said finally, then blurted, “Anya says you make very good bread.”
From Anya and the Nightingale by Sofiya Pasternack
When asked whether that makes him an anomaly in the Villages, he barely waits for the end of the question before resolutely blurting out his answer.
From BBC ● May 1, 2026
That might look like blurting things out or firing off a text that should be slept on.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 23, 2026
“It is almost fun sometimes to just go to that lazy part of your brain where you’re just blurting out whatever stupid thought comes out,” says Mike Judge, who created the duo and voices them.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 26, 2023
“This place looks like Seoul from the 1970s,” I remember blurting out in the car.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2022
She doesn’t know why she’s blurting out this stuff.
From "A Heart in a Body in the World" by Deb Caletti
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