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▸ verb:  (intransitive) To move or burst forth.
▸ verb:  To appear.
▸ verb:  To grow, to sprout.
▸ verb:  (UK dialectal) To mature.
▸ verb:  (figurative) To arise, to come into existence.
▸ verb:  (sometimes figurative) To enliven.
▸ verb:  (figurative, usually with cardinal adverbs) To move with great speed and energy.
▸ verb:  (usually with from) To be born, descend, or originate from
▸ verb:  (obsolete) To rise in social position or military rank, to be promoted.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To cause to spring (all senses).
▸ verb:  (of mechanisms) To cause to work or open by sudden application of pressure.
▸ verb:  (obsolete, of horses) To breed with, to impregnate.
▸ verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To wetten, to moisten.
▸ verb:  (intransitive, now usually with "apart" or "open") To burst into pieces, to explode, to shatter.
▸ verb:  (obsolete, military) To go off.
▸ verb:  (intransitive, nautical, usually perfective) To crack.
▸ verb:  (transitive, figurative) To surprise by sudden or deft action.
▸ verb:  To come upon and flush out.
▸ verb:  (Australia, slang) To catch in an illegal act or compromising position.
▸ verb:  (obsolete) To begin.
▸ verb:  (obsolete, slang) To put bad money into circulation.
▸ verb:  To tell, to share.
▸ verb:  (transitive, slang, US) To free from imprisonment, especially by facilitating an illegal escape.
▸ verb:  (intransitive, slang, rare) To be free of imprisonment, especially by illegal escape.
▸ verb:  (transitive, architecture, of arches) To build, to form the initial curve of.
▸ verb:  (intransitive, architecture, of arches, with "from") To extend, to curve.
▸ verb:  (transitive, nautical) To turn a vessel using a spring attached to its anchor cable.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To pay or spend a certain sum, to yield.
▸ verb:  (obsolete, intransitive, slang) To raise an offered price.
▸ verb:  (intransitive, obsolete) To act as a spring: to strongly rebound.
▸ verb:  (transitive, rare) To equip with springs, especially (of vehicles) to equip with a suspension.
▸ verb:  (figurative, rare, obsolete) to inspire, to motivate.
▸ verb:  (transitive, intransitive) To deform owing to excessive pressure, to become warped; to intentionally deform in order to position and then straighten in place.
▸ verb:  (intransitive, UK, dialectal, chiefly of cows) To swell with milk or pregnancy.
▸ verb:  (transitive, of rattles, archaic) To sound, to play.
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To spend the springtime somewhere
▸ verb:  (of animals) to find or get enough food during springtime.
▸ noun:  (countable) An act of springing: a leap, a jump.
▸ noun:  (countable) The season of the year in temperate regions in which plants spring from the ground and into bloom and dormant animals spring to life.
▸ noun:  (astronomy) The period from the moment of vernal equinox (around March 21 in the Northern Hemisphere) to the moment of the summer solstice (around June 21); the equivalent periods reckoned in other cultures and calendars.
▸ noun:  (meteorology) The three months of March, April, and May in the Northern Hemisphere and September, October, and November in the Southern Hemisphere.
▸ noun:  (uncountable, figurative) The time of something's growth; the early stages of some process.
▸ noun:  (figurative, politics) a period of political liberalization and democratization
▸ noun:  (countable, fashion) Someone with ivory or peach skin tone and eyes and hair that are not extremely dark, seen as best suited to certain colors of clothing.
▸ noun:  (countable) Something which springs, springs forth, springs up, or springs back, particularly
▸ noun:  (geology) A spray or body of water springing from the ground.
▸ noun:  (oceanography, obsolete) The rising of the sea at high tide.
▸ noun:  A mechanical device made of flexible or coiled material that exerts force and attempts to spring back when bent, compressed, or stretched.
▸ noun:  (nautical) A line from a vessel's end or side to its anchor cable used to diminish or control its movement.
▸ noun:  (nautical) A line laid out from a vessel's end to the opposite end of an adjacent vessel or mooring to diminish or control its movement.
▸ noun:  (figurative) A race, a lineage.
▸ noun:  (figurative) A youth.
▸ noun:  A shoot, a young tree.
▸ noun:  A grove of trees; a forest.
▸ noun:  (countable, slang) An erection of the penis.
▸ noun:  (countable, nautical, obsolete) A crack which has sprung up in a mast, spar, or (rare) a plank or seam.
▸ noun:  (uncountable) Springiness: an attribute or quality of springing, springing up, or springing back, particularly
▸ noun:  Elasticity: the property of a body springing back to its original form after compression, stretching, etc.
▸ noun:  Elastic energy, power, or force.
▸ noun:  (countable) The source from which an action or supply of something springs.
▸ noun:  (countable) Something which causes others or another to spring forth or spring into action, particularly
▸ noun:  A cause, a motive, etc.
▸ noun:  (obsolete) A lively piece of music.
▸ noun:  (countable) A surname.
▸ verb:  (transitive, US, dialectal) Alternative form of sprain. [To weaken, as a joint, ligament, or muscle, by sudden and excessive exertion, as by wrenching; to overstrain, or stretch injuriously, but without luxation]
▸ verb:  (transitive, US, dialectal) Alternative form of strain. [(transitive, obsolete) To hold tightly, to clasp.]
▸ noun:  (oceanography) Short for spring tide, the especially high tide shortly after full and new moons. [The tide which occurs when the moon is new or full; the effects of the Sun and moon being reinforced so that this tide is of maximum range.]
▸ noun:  Alternative form of spring, the season of warmth and new vegetation following winter. [(countable) An act of springing: a leap, a jump.]

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