Burgeon

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  • intransitive verb. undefined
  • intransitive verb. To put forth new buds, leaves, or greenery; sprout.
  • intransitive verb. To begin to grow or blossom.
  • intransitive verb. To grow or develop rapidly; expand or proliferate.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To bud; sprout; put forth new buds; shoot forth, as a branch.
  • noun. A bud; a sprout.
  • noun. A boss used for the cover of a book, to prevent injury to the binding. Often written burgen.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • intransitive verb. To bud. See bourgeon.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. bud, sprout, shoot
  • verb. To grow or expand.
  • verb. To swell to the point of bursting.
  • verb. Of plants, to bloom, bud.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. grow and flourish
  • Word Usage
    "The reason that the number of universes burgeon is that these parallel worlds evolve not out of human decisions but out of quantum events: out of the tendency for atoms and other particles to exist in two simultaneous states."
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    grow  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    sturgeon  surgeon  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    acrospire  augment  bine  bloom  blossom  
    variant
    bourgeon  
    verb-form