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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They stopped calling on Najya in class, making her “so frustrated that, waving her hand furiously, she began to blurt out the answers.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026
Cole is a former cop who feels guilty about his father’s death, a backstory as lackluster as the exposition dumps that blurt it out.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
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
I just blurt out the first thing that comes to mind.
From "What the Night Sings" by Vesper Stamper
She hesitates, then blurts out the news, barely holding back laughter.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026
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
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
There, at the worst possible time, Isaac blurts he doesn’t want to commit.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2025
“Tahari? I thought he was a fashion designer,” Stephanie blurts out.
From "A Place at the Table" by Saadia Faruqi and Laura Shovan
After seeing it, she says, she ran into Chin and blurted out, “I’m so glad you’re alive.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 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
“Why does it smell like pancakes in here?” a shopper blurted out from an adjoining changing room at Zara.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2025
“You mean, the one who could be your friend,” Josie blurted out.
From "The School for Whatnots" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
He had legitimate reasons to mock journalists for blurting rude questions about his dead brother River Phoenix on the red carpet.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 30, 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
"She was just crying down the phone, blurting it out in such terror and torment," Ms Will told the BBC.
From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2025
De Niro, who at times appeared grouchy, restrained himself from erupting at the dissection of his interactions with her before finally blurting out: “This is all nonsense!”
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 30, 2023
Neel tried to forestall it by blurting out the news about the cub.
From "Tiger Boy" by Mitali Perkins
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