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sprung up

sprung up is the past participle of spring up.

Meaning of spring up

Verb

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

  1. (intransitive) To appear suddenly.
    • A breeze had sprung up, pushing the ship back within range of the Spanish cannons.
    Synonyms:
    pop up
  2. (figuratively, intransitive) To come rapidly into existence.
    • In 1924 the Hashemite King Hussein was driven out of the Hedjaz by Ibn Saud, and a state of war sprang up between the new kingdoms of Saudi Arabia and Trans-Jordan.1956 March, R. C. Blaker, “The Hedjaz Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 167
    Synonyms:
    upspring

Questions about sprung up

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

Words near sprung up in the dictionary

  1. sprung rhyme
  2. sprung rhymes
  3. sprung to life
  4. sprung to mind
  5. sprung to somebody's defence
  6. sprung up
  7. Sprunger
  8. Sprungers
  9. sprungest
  10. sprunk
  11. sprunks

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