budded

Verb

bud (third-person singular simple present buds, present participle budding, simple past and past participle budded)

1. (intransitive) To form buds.
   • The trees are finally starting to bud.
2. (intransitive) To reproduce by splitting off buds.
   • Yeast reproduces by budding.
3. (intransitive) To begin to grow, or to issue from a stock in the manner of a bud, as a horn.
   • Seeds of dissent were budding among the recruits.
4. (intransitive) To be like a bud in respect to youth and freshness, or growth and promise.
   • Young budding virgin, fair and fresh and sweet, / Whither away, or where is thy abode?c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...
5. (transitive) To put forth as a bud.
   • What appeared the same to us really wasn't. Every day was different, if we looked closely enough. Like the topiary tree that finally budded a rose after Terrence died: […]2013, Julie Brown, The Brownstone, page 263
6. (transitive) To graft by inserting a bud under the bark of another tree.

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