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SPRING UP
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Come into existence; take on form or shape
Example:
An interesting phenomenon uprose
Synonyms:
arise; develop; grow; originate; rise; spring up; uprise
Classified under:
Verbs of being, having, spatial relations
Hypernyms (to "spring up" is one way to...):
become (come into existence)
Verb group:
develop (be gradually disclosed or unfolded; become manifest)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "spring up"):
resurge (rise again)
come forth; emerge (happen or occur as a result of something)
come; follow (to be the product or result)
swell; well up (come up (as of feelings and thoughts, or other ephemeral things))
head (take its rise)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s
