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upsprout

upsprout verb: to sprout up.

Verb

upsprout (third-person singular simple present upsprouts, present participle upsprouting, simple past and past participle upsprouted)

  1. (intransitive, poetic) To sprout up.
    • To-day he felt upsprout / Purest desires, and he hearkened / To those profoundest, wisest whispers / That in the sane will not be hushed;1883, George Henry Calvert, Sibyl, page 32

Forms of upsprout

third-person singular presentupsprouts
present participleupsprouting
past participleupsprouted
pastupsprouted

Origin of upsprout

From up- + sprout.

Questions about upsprout

What does upsprout mean?
Upsprout means to sprout up.
What part of speech is upsprout?
Upsprout is a verb.
What is the past tense of upsprout?
The past tense of upsprout is upsprouted.

Words near upsprout in the dictionary

  1. upspreading
  2. upspreads
  3. upspring
  4. upspringing
  5. upsprings
  6. upsprout
  7. upsprouted
  8. upsprouting
  9. upsprouts
  10. upsprung
  11. upspurt

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