springed
/spɹɪnd͡ʒd/
springed is the simple past and past participle of springe.
springed is the simple past and past participle of spring.
Meaning of springe
Verb (1)
springe (third-person singular simple present springes, present participle springing or springeing, simple past and past participle springed)
Verb (2)
springe (third-person singular simple present springes, present participle springing or springeing, simple past and past participle springed)
- To catch in a springe; to ensnare.
- By an active poacher who had hit a hare / From the other barrel, tired of springeing game1866, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh, and Other Poems, page 310
Meaning of spring
Verb
spring (third-person singular simple present springs, present participle springing, simple past sprang or sprung, past participle sprung)
- To move or burst forth.
- The boat sprang a leak and began to sink.
- 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
- 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
- Who hath diuided a water-course for the ouerflowing of waters? or a way for the lightning of thunder,
- To mature.
- To arise, to come into existence.
- To enliven.
- He hit the gas and the car sprang to life.
Adjective
IPA/spɹɪŋd/
springed (comparative more springed, superlative most springed)
- Having (a given type of) springs; equipped with (a given type of) springs.
- They were probably the work of individual craftsmen working to meet the chieftains' needs. Their place in the chronology of the big cemeteries is indicated by the less richly-decorated double-springed bronze brooches which are found here.1970, Kazimierz Godłowski, “The chronology of the Late Roman and early migration periods in Central Europe”, in Acta scientiarum litterarumque: Schedae archeologicae, Nakładem Uniwersytetu...
- Snibbing down the springed catch to secure a slatted wooden barrier, mindful of pained fingers past, she strategically pulled her hand back, thinking of it as a smart mouse stealing cheese from a trap.2008 December 2, Irvine Welsh, Crime, Random House, →ISBN, page 1
Forms of springed
| comparative | more springed |
|---|---|
| superlative | most springed |
Origin of springed
From springe + -ed (“past participle suffix”).
From spring + -ed (“having, equipped with”).
From spring + -ed (“past participle suffix”).
Words that rhyme with springed
Questions about springed
- What does springed mean?
- Springed means having (a given type of) springs; equipped with (a given type of) springs.
- What is springed the simple past and past participle of?
- Springed is the simple past and past participle of springe.
- What part of speech is springed?
- Springed is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce springed?
- Springed is pronounced /spɹɪnd͡ʒd/.
Words near springed in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: springed (page history and authors); springe (page history and authors); spring (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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