blurt
Americanverb (used with object)
noun
verb
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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
The humor comes off like a wallflower at a party who is racing with so many awkward thoughts that when it’s finally time to speak, they blurt out something rude.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 17, 2025
Any mind blurt or ridiculous thought that minnowed behind our eyeballs Midjourney absorbed and spat out.
From Slate ● Feb. 4, 2025
It's the reason Kelly can blurt, "People are saying" without pointing to a poll or naming names.
From Salon ● Sep. 9, 2023
In the last video that Lily told me to watch where I blurt out my height.
From "The Adoration of Jenna Fox" by Mary E. Pearson
“Oh, I failed,” Ferrell says, wiping off the face-sauce as the coaster pulls up to the platform and someone in line blurts, “Are those chicken nuggets?”
From Los Angeles Times ● May 29, 2026
Every character blurts out exactly what they want with the gusto of belting out ba-ba-baaaah at a certain Neil Diamond chorus.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 23, 2025
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
He’s sort of like a chess player, unless he blurts something out.
From Salon ● Nov. 20, 2025
His mother and father are in the kitchen, and Charlie, bursting with the excitement of Normas good news, blurts it out before she has a chance.
From "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes
Finally, Madden blurted out that he could find a random kid walking around the USC campus in sandals who could have more of an influence than that.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 20, 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
“Stop sleep-shaming me!,” the 58-year-old therapist, who lives in Bethesda, Md., blurted out.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 22, 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
I hadn’t done the homework, and by the time he got to me, I still hadn’t thought of a question, so I blurted, “Why does Mr. Neely use so many hashtags?”
From "The Science of Breakable Things" by Tae Keller
Travolta gasped, kissing his trophy and blurting, “I was just happy to be here.”
From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2026
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
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
Mom gave me the stink eye for blurting out my personal desires to someone we hardly knew.
From "How Dare the Sun Rise" by Sandra Uwiringiyimana
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
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