Usually means: Emerge or appear suddenly, rapidly.
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  1. spring up: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. spring up: Merriam-Webster
  3. spring up: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. spring up: Vocabulary.com
  5. spring up: Wiktionary
  6. spring up: Dictionary.com
  7. Spring Up: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. spring up: Rhymezone
  9. spring up: FreeDictionary.org
  10. spring up: Mnemonic Dictionary
  11. spring up: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. spring up: Legal dictionary

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  1. spring up: Encyclopedia

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  1. spring up: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (spring up)

▸ verb:  (intransitive) To appear suddenly.
▸ verb:  (intransitive, figuratively) To come rapidly into existence.

Similar:
arise, rise, grow, develop, originate, burst out, crop up, spring out, turn up, start up, more...

Opposite:
wane, decline, fade, drop

Types:
emerge, arise, come into being, come about, come to pass, more...

Adjectives:
upstart, breakthrough, alight, up, perk, put out, outdrawn, jack, upcast, set up, assurgent

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Similar:
arise, rise, grow, develop, originate, burst out, crop up, spring out, turn up, start up, more...

Opposite:
wane, decline, fade, drop

Types:
emerge, arise, come into being, come about, come to pass, more...

Adjectives:
upstart, breakthrough, alight, up, perk, put out, outdrawn, jack, upcast, set up, assurgent



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