(intransitive) To move or burst forth.
(intransitive) To move or burst forth.
(intransitive) To move or burst forth.
(UK, dialectal, intransitive) To move or burst forth.
(figuratively, intransitive) To move or burst forth.
(figuratively, intransitive, sometimes) To move or burst forth.
(figuratively, intransitive, usually) To move or burst forth.
(intransitive, usually) To move or burst forth.
(intransitive, obsolete) To move or burst forth.
(transitive) To cause to spring (all senses).
(transitive) To cause to spring (all senses).
(transitive) To leap over.
(obsolete) To breed with, to impregnate.
(obsolete, transitive) To wet, to moisten.
(intransitive, usually) To burst into pieces, to explode, to shatter.
(obsolete) To go off.
(ambitransitive, perfective, usually) To crack.
To come upon and flush out.
(Australia, slang) To catch in an illegal act or compromising position.
(obsolete) To begin.
(obsolete, slang) To put bad money into circulation.
To tell, to share.
(US, slang, transitive) To free from imprisonment, especially by facilitating an illegal escape.
(intransitive, rare, slang) To be free of imprisonment, especially by illegal escape.
(transitive) To build, to form the initial curve of.
(intransitive) To extend, to curve.
(transitive) To turn a vessel using a spring attached to its anchor cable.
(transitive) To pay or spend a certain sum, to yield.
(intransitive, obsolete, slang) To raise an offered price.
(US, alt-of, alternative, dialectal, transitive) Alternative form of sprain.
(US, alt-of, alternative, dialectal, transitive) Alternative form of strain.
(intransitive, obsolete) To act as a spring: to strongly rebound.
(rare, transitive) To equip with springs, especially (of vehicles) to equip with a suspension.
(figuratively, obsolete, rare) to inspire, to motivate.
(ambitransitive) To deform owing to excessive pressure, to become warped; to intentionally deform in order to position and then straighten in place.
(UK, dialectal, intransitive) To swell with milk or pregnancy.
(archaic, transitive) To sound, to play.
To find or get enough food during springtime.

(countable) An act of springing: a leap, a jump.
(countable, uncountable) The season of the year in temperate regions in which temperatures and daylight hours rise, and plants spring from the ground and into bloom and dormant animals spring to life.
(countable, uncountable) The season of the year in temperate regions in which temperatures and daylight hours rise, and plants spring from the ground and into bloom and dormant animals spring to life.
(countable, uncountable) The season of the year in temperate regions in which temperatures and daylight hours rise, and plants spring from the ground and into bloom and dormant animals spring to life.
(figuratively, uncountable) The time of something's growth; the early stages of some process.
(countable, figuratively, uncountable) The time of something's growth; the early stages of some process.
(countable) Someone with ivory or peach skin tone and eyes and hair that are not extremely dark, seen as best suited to certain colors of clothing.
(countable, uncountable) Something which springs, springs forth, springs up, or springs back, particularly
(countable, obsolete, uncountable) Something which springs, springs forth, springs up, or springs back, particularly
(abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable) Something which springs, springs forth, springs up, or springs back, particularly
(countable, uncountable) Something which springs, springs forth, springs up, or springs back, particularly
(countable, uncountable) Something which springs, springs forth, springs up, or springs back, particularly
(countable, uncountable) Something which springs, springs forth, springs up, or springs back, particularly
(countable, figuratively, uncountable) Something which springs, springs forth, springs up, or springs back, particularly
(countable, figuratively, uncountable) Something which springs, springs forth, springs up, or springs back, particularly
(countable, uncountable) Something which springs, springs forth, springs up, or springs back, particularly
(countable, uncountable) Something which springs, springs forth, springs up, or springs back, particularly
(countable, slang) An erection of the penis.
(countable, obsolete) A crack which has sprung up in a mast, spar, or (rare) a plank or seam.
(countable, uncountable) Springiness: an attribute or quality of springing, springing up, or springing back, particularly
(countable, uncountable) Springiness: an attribute or quality of springing, springing up, or springing back, particularly
(countable) The source from which an action or supply of something springs.
(countable, uncountable) Something which causes others or another to spring forth or spring into action, particularly
(countable, obsolete, uncountable) Something which causes others or another to spring forth or spring into action, particularly

sprung

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