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sprang back

sprang back is the simple past of spring back.

Meaning of spring back

Verb

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

  1. (intransitive) To recoil; to bounce back; to recover to an improved position.
    • The bough sprang back and hit us square in the face.

Questions about sprang back

What is sprang back the simple past of?
Sprang back is the simple past of spring back.

Words near sprang back in the dictionary

  1. spraint
  2. spraints
  3. Spraker
  4. Sprakers
  5. sprang
  6. sprang back
  7. sprang for
  8. sprang into action
  9. sprang out
  10. sprang to life
  11. sprang to mind

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sprang back (page history and authors); spring back (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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