blurt

verb (used with object)

to utter suddenly or inadvertently; divulge impulsively or unadvisedly (usually followed by out ): He blurted out the hiding place of the spy.

noun

an abrupt utterance.

Origin:
1565–75; apparently imitative

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blurt (blɜːt)

—vb (often foll by out)
	to utter suddenly and involuntarily

[C16: probably of imitative origin]

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Word Origin & History

blurt

1570s, probably echoic.

Example sentences

Participants blurt out as many ideas as possible within a specified time period.

Many doctors are reluctant to blurt out such a severe diagnosis after only a relatively brief visit.

After all, people blurt out stuff for all sorts of reasons, not all of which are high-minded.

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"Run fast, stand still. This, the lesson from lizards. For all writers. Observe almost any survival creature, you see the same. Jump, run, freeze. In the ability to flick like an eyelash, crack like a whip, vanish like steam, here this instant, gone the next—life teems the earth. And when that life is not rushing to escape, it is playing statues to do the same. See the hummingbird, there, not there. As thought arises and blinks off, so this thing of summer vapor; the clearing of a cosmic throat, the fall of a leaf. And where it was—a whisper. What can we writers learn from lizards, lift from birds? In quickness is truth. The faster you blurt, the more swiftly you write, the more honest you are. In hesitation is thought. In delay comes the effort for a style, instead of leaping upon truth which is the only style worth deadfalling or tiger-trapping. In between the scurries and flights, what? Be a chameleon, ink- blend, chromosome change with the landscape. Be a pet rock, lie with the dust, rest in the rainwater in the filled barrel by the drainspout outside your grandparents' window long ago."

-Ray Bradbury