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
(of munitions) going off; "bursting bombs"; "an exploding nuclear device"; "a spectacular display of detonating anti-tank mines
If you are bursting to do something, you are very eager to do it. She was bursting to tell everyone see also burst
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