sprang

Verb

spring (third-person singular simple present springs, present participle springing, simple past sprang or sprung, past participle sprung)

1. (intransitive) To move or burst forth.
   • The boat sprang a leak and began to sink.
   1. (intransitive) To appear.
      • ...so the man tooke his concubine, and brought her foorth vnto them, and they knew her, and abused her all the night vntil the morning: and when the day began to spring, they let her goe.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Judges 19:25
   2. (intransitive) To grow, to sprout.
      • Who hath diuided a water-course for the ouerflowing of waters? or a way for the lightning of thunder,
        To cause it to raine on the earth, where no man is: on the wildernesse wherein there is no man?
        To satisfie the desolate and waste ground, and to cause the bud of the tender herbe to spring forth.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Job 38:25–27
   3. (UK, dialectal, intransitive) To mature.
   4. (figuratively, intransitive) To arise, to come into existence.
   5. (figuratively, intransitive, sometimes) To enliven.
      • He hit the gas and the car sprang to life.

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