Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - bursting

1. If a place is bursting with people or things, it is full of them. The place appears to be bursting with women directors. ...a terraced vegetable garden, bursting with produce. ADJ: v-link ADJ, usu ADJ with n 2. If you say that someone is bursting with a feeling or quality, you mean that they have a great deal of it. I was bursting with curiosity. ...a character bursting with energy and vivacity. ADJ: v-link ADJ with n 3. If you are bursting to do something, you are very eager to do it. (INFORMAL) She was bursting to tell everyone... ADJ: v-link ADJ to-inf 4. see also burst