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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I was just like, trying not to be a stuttering idiot, trying not to blurt out, “I love ‘Pretty Woman’!”
From Salon ● Oct. 17, 2025
"If I see something on Instagram I'm not going to tell someone or blurt it out to the team because they don't want to see it. I think it's a personal preference."
From BBC ● Jun. 17, 2025
Any mind blurt or ridiculous thought that minnowed behind our eyeballs Midjourney absorbed and spat out.
From Slate ● Feb. 4, 2025
Why would the Clippers want to acquire a player whose latest assessment of his current team’s president is to blurt out liar, liar, pants on fire?
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2023
Jeb just stared at her like the cat got his tongue, but I managed to blurt out something about looking for Wonders.
From "The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs" by Betty G. Birney
What goes down: He accidentally blurts out an inappropriate word that shocks his older co-workers, who don’t understand that the word is often used as a compliment among young people.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
“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
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
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
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
She said she blurted out "your book is not here".
From BBC ● Jan. 16, 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
Eager to please and panic-stricken, Chickenhound blurted out, “Yes, that’s right, sir. Give us a chance and we’ll tunnel with the best of them.”
From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques
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
And in “Wretched,” he’s desperately missing someone, feeling lost and abandoned, blurting out that “My life feels wrong without you.”
From New York Times ● Jun. 17, 2022
O’Reilly turned to me, an eyebrow raised in disapproval at my blurting disruption.
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
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