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outbud

outbud verb: to sprout.

Verb

outbud (third-person singular simple present outbuds, present participle outbudding, simple past and past participle outbudded)

  1. (ambitransitive, poetic) To sprout.
    • that renowmed snake […]Whose many heades out-budding ever new1590, Edmund Spenser, “(please specify the book)”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
    • Oh, to die in the Spring-time, the young joyous Spring,
      When scarce have outbudded the sprigs that they fling1842, Arthur Cleveland Coxe, Halloween

Forms of outbud

third-person singular presentoutbuds
present participleoutbudding
past participleoutbudded
pastoutbudded

Origin of outbud

From out- + bud.

Questions about outbud

What does outbud mean?
Outbud means to sprout.
What part of speech is outbud?
Outbud is a verb.
What is the past tense of outbud?
The past tense of outbud is outbudded.

Words near outbud in the dictionary

  1. outbroke
  2. outbroken
  3. outbrother
  4. outbrothers
  5. outbrought
  6. outbud
  7. outbudded
  8. outbudding
  9. outbuddings
  10. outbuds
  11. outbuild

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