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spring - verb

  1. To move off the ground by a muscular effort of the legs and feet: hurdle, jump, leap, vault. See move. rise.
  2. To bound lightly: hop, skip, skitter, trip. See move.
  3. To move in a lively way: bounce, bound, jump, leap. See move.
  4. To have as a source: arise, come, derive, emanate, flow, issue, originate, proceed, rise, stem, upspring. See start.
  5. To have hereditary derivation: derive, descend, issue. See kin.
  6. To set at liberty: discharge, emancipate, free, liberate, loose, manumit, release. See free.

spring - noun

  1. The quality or state of being flexible: bounce, ductility, elasticity, flexibility, flexibleness, give, malleability, malleableness, plasticity, pliability, pliableness, pliancy, pliantness, resilience, resiliency, springiness, suppleness. Obsolete flexure. See flexible.
  2. The act of jumping: jump, leap, vault. See move. rise.
  3. A light bounding movement: hop, skip. See move.
  4. A sudden lively movement: bounce, bound, jump, leap. See move.
  5. A point of origination: beginning, derivation, fount, fountain, fountainhead, mother, origin, parent, provenance, provenience, root, rootstock, source, well. See start.
  6. A basis for an action or a decision: cause, ground(often used in plural), motivation, motive, reason. See start.
  7. The initial stage of a developmental process: beginning, birth, commencement, dawn, genesis, inception, nascence, nascency, onset, opening, origin, outset, start. See start.
  8. The season of the year during which the weather becomes warmer and plants revive: seedtime, springtide, springtime. See time.
  9. The time of life between childhood and maturity: adolescence, greenness, juvenescence, juvenility, puberty, salad days, youth, youthfulness. See youth.

spring - adjective

  1. Of, occurring in, or characteristic of the season of spring: vernal. See time.