spring

Language: EN · Kind: word · Transcription: [/ˈspɹɪŋ/]

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1. spring (verb) — sense 1

Definition: To move or burst forth.

Example: The boat sprang a leak and began to sink.

2. spring (verb) — sense 2

Definition: To move or burst forth.: To appear.

Example: ...so the man tooke his concubine, and brought her foorth vnto them, and they knew her, and abused her all the night vntil the morning: and when the day began to spring, they let her goe.

3. spring (verb) — sense 3

Definition: To move or burst forth.: To grow, to sprout.

Example: Who hath diuided a water-course for the ouerflowing of waters? or a way for the lightning of thunder,
To cause it to raine on the earth, where no man is: on the wildernesse wherein there is no man?
To satisfie the desolate and waste ground, and to cause the bud of the tender herbe to spring forth.

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