Bursts
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
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Space Megaforce (aka Super Aleste) has the Scatter Shot, which fires large shells that explode into small shot bursts upon contact with an enemy or structure.
Source: Spread Shot - In Osmosis Jones when Thrax kills the white blood cell dock worker, as he becomes infected and begins to explode one of his eyes bursts and oozes his fluids out of the socket.
Source: Eye Scream / Film -
She rigs about four or five different things to happen (pills, hanging, a stove rigged to explode, a gun triggered to a door, etc.) but they cancel each other out through a fluke accident when her husband bursts into the room.
Source: Rasputinian Death
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