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sprung back

sprung back is the past participle 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 sprung back

What is sprung back the past participle of?
Sprung back is the past participle of spring back.

Words near sprung back in the dictionary

  1. spruing
  2. spruit
  3. spruits
  4. sprummer
  5. sprung
  6. sprung back
  7. sprung for
  8. sprung into action
  9. sprung out
  10. sprung rhyme
  11. sprung rhymes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sprung 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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