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Synonyms of the word 
SPRING → ACQUIRE - BECOME - BEGINNING - BOUNCE - BOUND - BREAK - DEVELOP - DISCLOSE - DISCOVER - DIVULGE - ELASTICITY - EXPOSE - FORM - FORMATION - FOUNTAIN - GET - GIVE - GROW - IMPART - JUMP - JUMPING - LEAP - LEAPING - MOVE - ORIGIN - OUTFLOW - OUTPOURING - PRODUCE - REBOUND - RECOIL - RESILE - REVEAL - REVERBERATE - RICOCHET - ROOT - SALTATION - SEASON - SNAP - SOURCE - SPRING - SPRINGINESS - SPRINGTIME - UNWRAPspring- v. To jump or leap.
- v. To pass over by leaping.
- v. To produce or disclose unexpectedly, especially of surprises, traps, etc.
- v. (slang) To release or set free, especially from prison.
- v. To come into being, often quickly or sharply.
- v. To start or rise suddenly, as from a covert.
- v. To cause to spring up; to start or rouse, as game; to cause to rise from the earth, or from a covert.
- v. (nautical) To crack or split; to bend or strain so as to weaken.
- v. To bend by force, as something stiff or strong; to force or put by bending, as a beam into its sockets,…
- v. To issue with speed and violence; to move with activity; to dart; to shoot.
- v. To fly back.
- v. (intransitive) To bend from a straight direction or plane surface; to become warped.
- v. To shoot up, out, or forth; to come to the light; to begin to appear; to emerge, like a plant from its…
- v. To issue or proceed, as from a parent or ancestor; to result, as from a cause, motive, reason, or principle.
- v. (obsolete) To grow; to prosper.
- v. (architecture, masonry, transitive) To build (an arch).
- v. (transitive, archaic) To sound (a rattle, such as a watchman's rattle).
- n. A leap; a bound; a jump.
- n. (countable) Traditionally the first of the four seasons of the year in temperate regions, in which plants…
- n. (countable) Meteorologically, the months of March, April and May in the northern hemisphere or September,…
- n. (countable) The astronomically delineated period from the moment of vernal equinox, approximately March…
- n. (countable) Spring tide; a tide of greater-than-average range, that is, around the first or third quarter…
- n. (countable) A place where water emerges from the ground.
- n. (uncountable) The property of a body of springing to its original form after being compressed, stretched,…
- n. Elastic power or force.
- n. (countable) A mechanical device made of flexible or coiled material that exerts force when it is bent,…
- n. (countable, slang) An erection of the penis.
- n. (countable) The source of an action or of a supply.
- n. Any active power; that by which action, or motion, is produced or propagated; cause; origin; motive.
- n. That which springs, or is originated, from a source.
- n. (obsolete) That which causes one to spring; specifically, a lively tune.
- n. The time of growth and progress; early portion; first stage.
- n. (countable, nautical) A rope attaching the bow of a vessel to the stern-side of the jetty, or vice versa,…
- n. (nautical) A line led from a vessel's quarter to her cable so that by tightening or slacking it she can…
- n. (nautical) A crack or fissure in a mast or yard, running obliquely or transversely.
acquire- v. (transitive) To get.
- v. (transitive) To gain, usually by one's own exertions; to get as one's own.
- v. (medicine) To contract.
- v. (computing) To sample signals and convert them into digital values.
become- v. (intransitive, obsolete) To arrive, come (to a place).
- v. (copulative) To come about; happen; come into being; arise.
- v. (copulative) begin to be; turn into.
- v. (transitive) To be proper for; to befit.
- v. (transitive) Of an adornment, piece of clothing etc.: to look attractive on (someone).
beginning- n. (uncountable) The act of doing that which begins anything; commencement of an action, state, or space…
- n. That which is begun; a rudiment or element.
- n. That which begins or originates something; the first cause; origin; source.
- n. The initial portion of some extended thing.
- v. present participle of begin.
- adj. (informal) Of or relating to the first portion of some extended thing.
bounce- v. (intransitive) To change the direction of motion after hitting an obstacle.
- v. (intransitive) To move quickly up and then down, or vice versa, once or repeatedly.
- v. (transitive) To cause to move quickly up and down, or back and forth, once or repeatedly.
- v. (transitive, colloquial) To suggest or introduce (an idea, etc.) to (off or by) somebody, in order to…
- v. (intransitive) To leap or spring suddenly or unceremoniously; to bound.
- v. (intransitive, informal, of a cheque/check) To be refused by a bank because it is drawn on insufficient…
- v. (transitive, informal) To fail to cover (have sufficient funds for) (a draft presented against one's account).
- v. (intransitive, slang) To leave.
- v. (US, slang, dated) To eject violently, as from a room; to discharge unceremoniously, as from employment.
- v. (intransitive, slang, African American Vernacular) (sometimes employing the preposition with) To have…
- v. (transitive, air combat) To attack unexpectedly.
- v. (intransitive, electronics) To turn power off and back on; to reset.
- v. (intransitive, Internet, of an e-mail message or address) To return undelivered.
- v. (intransitive, aviation) To land hard and lift off again due to excess momentum.
- v. (intransitive, skydiving) To land hard on unsurvivable velocity with fatal results.
- v. (slang, dated) To bully; to scold.
- v. (archaic) To strike or thump, so as to rebound, or to make a sudden noise; to knock loudly.
- v. (archaic) To boast; to bluster.
- n. A change of direction of motion after hitting the ground or an obstacle.
- n. A movement up and then down (or vice versa), once or repeatedly.
- n. An email return with any error.
- n. The sack, licensing.
- n. A bang, boom.
- n. A drink based on brandyW.
- n. A heavy, sudden, and often noisy, blow or thump.
- n. Bluster; brag; untruthful boasting; audacious exaggeration; an impudent lie; a bouncer.
- n. Scyllium catulus, a European dogfish.
- n. A genre of New Orleans music.
- n. (slang, African American Vernacular) Drugs..
- n. (slang, African American Vernacular) Swagger..
- n. (slang, African American Vernacular) A 'good' beat.
- n. (slang, African American Vernacular) A talent for leaping..
bound- v. simple past tense and past participle of bind.
- adj. (with infinitive) Obliged (to).
- adj. (with infinitive) Very likely (to).
- adj. (linguistics, of a morpheme) That cannot stand alone as a free word.
- adj. (mathematics, logic, of a variable) Constrained by a quantifier.
- adj. (dated) constipated; costive.
- adj. Confined or restricted to a certain place; e.g. railbound.
- adj. Unable to move in certain conditions; e.g. snowbound.
- n. (often used in plural) A boundary, the border which one must cross in order to enter or leave a territory.
- n. (mathematics) a value which is known to be greater or smaller than a given set of values.
- v. To surround a territory or other geographical entity.
- v. (mathematics) To be the boundary of.
- n. A sizeable jump, great leap.
- n. A spring from one foot to the other in dancing.
- n. (dated) A bounce; a rebound.
- v. (intransitive) To leap, move by jumping.
- v. (transitive) To cause to leap.
- v. (intransitive, dated) To rebound; to bounce.
- v. (transitive, dated) To cause to rebound; to throw so that it will rebound; to bounce.
- adj. (obsolete) ready, prepared.
- adj. ready, able to start or go (to); moving in the direction (of).
break- v. (transitive, intransitive) To separate into two or more pieces, to fracture or crack, by a process that…
- v. (transitive) To divide (something, often money) into smaller units.
- v. (transitive) To cause (a person or animal) to lose spirit or will; to crush the spirits of.
- v. (intransitive) To be crushed, or overwhelmed with sorrow or grief.
- v. (transitive) To interrupt; to destroy the continuity of; to dissolve or terminate.
- v. (transitive) To ruin financially.
- v. (transitive) To violate, to not adhere to.
- v. (intransitive, of a fever) To pass the most dangerous part of the illness; to go down, temperaturewise.
- v. (intransitive, of a storm or spell of weather) To end.
- v. (transitive, gaming slang) To design or use a powerful (yet legal) strategy that unbalances the game in…
- v. (transitive, intransitive) To stop, or to cause to stop, functioning properly or altogether.
- v. (transitive) To cause (a barrier) to no longer bar.
- v. (transitive) To destroy the arrangement of; to throw into disorder; to pierce.
- v. (intransitive, of a wave of water) To collapse into surf, after arriving in shallow water.
- v. (intransitive) To burst forth; to make its way; to come into view.
- v. (intransitive) To interrupt or cease one's work or occupation temporarily.
- v. (transitive) To interrupt (a fall) by inserting something so that the falling object does not (immediately)…
- v. (transitive, ergative) To disclose or make known an item of news, etc.
- v. (intransitive, of morning) To arrive.
- v. (intransitive, of a sound) To become audible suddenly.
- v. (transitive) To change a steady state abruptly.
- v. (copulative, informal) To suddenly become.
- v. (intransitive) Of a voice, to alter in type: in men generally to go up, in women sometimes to go down;…
- v. (transitive) To surpass or do better than (a specific number), to do better than (a record), setting a…
- v. (sports and games).
- v. (transitive, military, most often in the passive tense) To demote, to reduce the military rank of.
- v. (transitive) To end (a connection), to disconnect.
- v. (intransitive, of an emulsion) To demulsify.
- v. (intransitive, sports) To counter-attack.
- v. (transitive, obsolete) To lay open, as a purpose; to disclose, divulge, or communicate.
- v. (intransitive) To become weakened in constitution or faculties; to lose health or strength.
- v. (intransitive, obsolete) To fail in business; to become bankrupt.
- v. (transitive) To destroy the strength, firmness, or consistency of.
- v. (transitive) To destroy the official character and standing of; to cashier; to dismiss.
- v. (intransitive) To make an abrupt or sudden change; to change the gait.
- v. (intransitive, archaic) To fall out; to terminate friendship.
- v. (of a horse) To tame, to horsebreak.
- n. An instance of breaking something into two pieces.
- n. A physical space that opens up in something or between two things.
- n. A rest or pause, usually from work. Often the mid-morning breaktime in the school day.
- n. A short holiday.
- n. A temporary split with a romantic partner.
- n. An interval or intermission between two parts of a performance, for example a theatre show, broadcast,…
- n. A significant change in circumstance, attitude, perception, or focus of attention.
- n. The beginning (of the morning).
- n. An act of escaping.
- n. (computing) The separation between lines or paragraphs of a written text.
- n. (Britain, weather) A change, particularly the end of a spell of persistent good or bad weather.
- n. (sports and games).
- n. (dated) A large four-wheeled carriage, having a straight body and calash top, with the driver's seat in…
- n. (equitation) A sharp bit or snaffle.
- n. (music) A short section of music, often between verses, in which some performers stop while others continue.
- n. (music) The point in the musical scale at which a woodwind instrument is designed to overblow, that is,…
- n. (music) A section of extended repetition of the percussion break to a song, created by a hip-hop DJ as…
develop- v. (intransitive) To change with a specific direction, progress.
- v. (transitive, intransitive) To progress through a sequence of stages.
- v. (transitive) To advance; to further; to promote the growth of.
- v. (transitive) To create.
- v. (transitive) To bring out images latent in photographic film.
- v. (transitive) To acquire something usually over a period of time.
- v. (chess, transitive) To place one's pieces actively.
- v. (snooker, pool) To cause a ball to become more open and available to be played on later. Usually by moving…
- v. (mathematics) To change the form of (an algebraic expression, etc.) by executing certain indicated operations…
disclose- v. (transitive, obsolete) To open up, unfasten.
- v. (transitive) To uncover, physically expose to view.
- v. (transitive) To expose to the knowledge of others; to make known, state openly, reveal.
- n. (obsolete) A disclosure.
discover- v. To find or learn something for the first time.
- v. (transitive, obsolete) To remove the cover from; to uncover (a head, building etc.).
- v. (transitive, now rare) To expose, uncover.
- v. (transitive, chess) To create by moving a piece out of another piece's line of attack.
- v. (transitive, archaic) To reveal (information); to divulge, make known.
- v. (transitive, obsolete) To reconnoitre, explore (an area).
- v. (obsolete) To manifest without design; to show; to exhibit.
divulge- v. (transitive) To make public or known; to communicate to the public; to tell (information, especially a…
- v. To indicate publicly; to proclaim.
elasticity- n. (physics) The property by virtue of which a material deformed under load can regain its original dimensions…
- n. (economics) The sensitivity of changes in a quantity with respect to changes in another quantity.
- n. The quality of being elastic.
- n. Adaptability.
expose- v. (transitive) To reveal, uncover, make visible, bring to light, introduce to.
- v. (transitive) To subject photographic film to light thereby recording an image.
- v. (transitive) To abandon, especially an unwanted baby in the wilderness.
- v. To submit to an active (mostly dangerous) substance like an allergen, ozone, nicotine, solvent, or to…
- v. (computing, transitive) To make available to other parts of a program, or to other programs.
form- n. (heading, physical) To do with shape.
- n. (social) To do with structure or procedure.
- n. A blank document or template to be filled in by the user.
- n. Level of performance.
- n. (grammar) A grouping of words which maintain grammatical context in different usages; the particular shape…
- n. The den or home of a hare.
- n. (computing, programming) A window or dialogue box.
- n. (taxonomy) An infraspecific rank.
- n. (printing, dated) The type or other matter from which an impression is to be taken, arranged and secured…
- n. (geometry) A quantic.
- n. (sports, fitness) A specific way of performing a movement.
- v. (transitive) To assume (a certain shape or visible structure).
- v. (transitive) To give (a shape or visible structure) to a thing or person.
- v. (intransitive) To take shape.
- v. To put together or bring into being; assemble.
- v. (transitive, linguistics) To create (a word) by inflection or derivation.
- v. (transitive) To constitute, to compose, to make up.
- v. To mould or model by instruction or discipline.
- v. To provide (a hare) with a form.
- v. (electrical, historical, transitive) To treat (plates) to prepare them for introduction into a storage…
formation- n. Something possessing structure or form.
- n. The act of assembling a group or structure.
- n. (geology) A rock or face of a mountain.
- n. (military) A grouping of military units or smaller formations under a command, such as a brigade, division,…
- n. (military) An arrangement of moving troops, ships, or aircraft, such as a wedge, line abreast, or echelon…
- n. (sports) An arrangement of players designed to facilitate certain plays.
- n. The process of influencing or guiding a person to a deeper understanding of a particular vocation.
- n. The process during which something comes into being and gains its characteristics.
fountain- n. (originally) A natural source of water; a spring.
- n. An artificial, usually ornamental, water feature (usually in a garden or public place) consisting of one…
- n. The structure from which an artificial fountain can issue.
- n. A reservoir from which liquid can be drawn.
- n. A source or origin of a flow (e.g., of favors or knowledge).
- n. (heraldry) A roundel barry wavy argent and azure.
- n. (juggling) A juggling pattern typically done with an even number of props where each prop is caught by…
- n. (US) A soda fountain.
- v. (intransitive) To flow or gush as if from a fountain.
get- v. (transitive) To obtain; to acquire.
- v. (transitive) To receive.
- v. (transitive, in a perfect construction, with present-tense meaning) To have. See usage notes.
- v. (copulative) To become.
- v. (transitive) To cause to become; to bring about.
- v. (transitive) To fetch, bring, take.
- v. (transitive) To cause to do.
- v. (intransitive, with various prepositions, such as into, over, or behind; for specific idiomatic senses…
- v. (transitive) To cover (a certain distance) while travelling.
- v. (transitive) To cause to come or go or move.
- v. (transitive) To cause to be in a certain status or position.
- v. (intransitive) To begin (doing something).
- v. (transitive) To take or catch (a scheduled transportation service).
- v. (transitive) To respond to (a telephone call, a doorbell, etc).
- v. (intransitive, followed by infinitive) To be able, permitted (to do something); to have the opportunity…
- v. (transitive, informal) To understand. (compare get it).
- v. (transitive, informal) To be subjected to.
- v. (informal) To be. Used to form the passive of verbs.
- v. (transitive) To become ill with or catch (a disease).
- v. (transitive, informal) To catch out, trick successfully.
- v. (transitive, informal) To perplex, stump.
- v. (transitive) To find as an answer.
- v. (transitive, informal) To bring to reckoning; to catch (as a criminal); to effect retribution.
- v. (transitive) To hear completely; catch.
- v. (transitive) To getter.
- v. (now rare) To beget (of a father).
- v. (archaic) To learn; to commit to memory; to memorize; sometimes with out.
- v. (imperative, informal) Used with a personal pronoun to indicate that someone is being pretentious or grandiose.
- v. (imperative, informal) Go away; get lost.
- v. (euphemistic) To kill.
- v. (intransitive, obsolete) To make acquisitions; to gain; to profit.
- n. Offspring.
- n. Lineage.
- n. (sports, tennis) A difficult return or block of a shot.
- n. Something gained.
- n. (Britain, regional) A git.
- n. (Judaism) A Jewish writ of divorce.
give- v. (transitive, may take two objects) To move, shift, provide something abstract or concrete to someone or…
- v. (transitive, may take two objects) To estimate or predict (a duration or probability) for (something).
- v. (intransitive) To yield slightly when a force is applied.
- v. (intransitive) To collapse under pressure or force.
- v. (transitive) To provide, as, a service or a broadcast.
- v. (intransitive) To lead (onto or into).
- v. (transitive, dated) To provide a view of.
- v. To exhibit as a product or result; to produce; to yield.
- v. To cause; to make; used with the infinitive.
- v. To allow or admit by way of supposition.
- v. To attribute; to assign; to adjudge.
- v. To communicate or announce (advice, tidings, etc.); to pronounce or utter (an opinion, a judgment, a shout,…
- v. (dated) To grant power or permission to; to allow.
- v. (reflexive) To devote or apply (oneself).
- v. (obsolete) To become soft or moist.
- v. (obsolete) To shed tears; to weep.
- v. (obsolete) To have a misgiving.
- v. To be going on, to be occurring.
- n. (uncountable) The amount of bending that something undergoes when a force is applied to it.
grow- v. (ergative) To become bigger.
- v. (intransitive) To appear or sprout.
- v. (transitive) To cause or allow something to become bigger, especially to cultivate plants.
- v. (copulative) To assume a condition or quality over time.
- v. (intransitive, obsolete) To become attached or fixed; to adhere.
impart- v. To give a part or share.
- v. To communicate the knowledge of; to make known; to show by words or tokens; to tell; to disclose.
- v. To hold a conference or consultation.
- v. To obtain a share of; to partake of.
jump- v. (intransitive) To propel oneself rapidly upward, downward and/or in any horizontal direction such that…
- v. (intransitive) To cause oneself to leave an elevated location and fall downward.
- v. (transitive) To pass by a spring or leap; to overleap.
- v. (intransitive) To employ a parachute to leave an aircraft or elevated location.
- v. (intransitive) To react to a sudden, often unexpected, stimulus (such as a sharp prick or a loud sound)…
- v. (intransitive) To employ a move in certain board games where one game piece is moved from one legal position…
- v. (transitive) To move to a position in (a queue/line) that is further forward.
- v. (transitive) To attack suddenly and violently.
- v. (transitive) To engage in sexual intercourse.
- v. (transitive) To cause to jump.
- v. (transitive) To move the distance between two opposing subjects.
- v. (transitive) To increase the height of a tower crane by inserting a section at the base of the tower and…
- v. (cycling, intransitive) To increase speed aggressively and without warning.
- v. (transitive, obsolete) To expose to danger; to risk; to hazard.
- v. (transitive, smithwork) To join by a buttweld.
- v. To thicken or enlarge by endwise blows; to upset.
- v. (quarrying) To bore with a jumper.
- v. (obsolete) To coincide; to agree; to accord; to tally; followed by with.
- v. (intransitive, computing) To start executing code from a different location, rather than following the…
- n. The act of jumping; a leap; a spring; a bound.
- n. An effort; an attempt; a venture.
- n. (mining) A dislocation in a stratum; a fault.
- n. (architecture) An abrupt interruption of level in a piece of brickwork or masonry.
- n. An instance of propelling oneself upwards.
- n. An instance of causing oneself to fall from an elevated location.
- n. An instance of employing a parachute to leave an aircraft or elevated location.
- n. An instance of reacting to a sudden stimulus by jerking the body.
- n. A jumping move in a board game.
- n. A button (of a joypad, joystick or similar device) used to make a video game character jump (propel itself…
- n. (sports, horses) An obstacle that forms part of a showjumping course, and that the horse has to jump over…
- n. (with on) An early start or an advantage.
- n. (mathematics) A discontinuity in the graph of a function, where the function is continuous in a punctured…
- n. (science fiction) An instance of faster-than-light travel, not observable from ordinary space.
- n. (computing) A change of the path of execution to a different location.
- adv. (obsolete) exactly; precisely.
- adj. (obsolete) Exact; matched; fitting; precise.
- n. A kind of loose jacket for men.
jumping- adj. (colloquial) Excellent, very fun.
- v. present participle of jump.
- n. The act of performing a jump.
leap- v. (intransitive) To jump.
- v. (transitive) To pass over by a leap or jump.
- v. (transitive) To copulate with (a female beast); to cover.
- v. (transitive) To cause to leap.
- n. The act of leaping or jumping.
- n. The distance traversed by a leap or jump.
- n. (figuratively) A significant move forward.
- n. (mining) A fault.
- n. Copulation with, or coverture of, a female beast.
- n. (music) A passing from one note to another by an interval, especially by a long one, or by one including…
- n. (obsolete) A basket.
- n. A weel or wicker trap for fish.
- n. (calendar) Intercalary, bissextile.
- n. (figuratively) Synonym of exaggeration.
- n. basket.
- n. a trap or snare for fish.
- n. half a bushel.
leaping- v. present participle of leap.
move- v. (intransitive) To change place or posture; to stir; to go, in any manner, from one place or position to…
- v. (intransitive) To act; to take action; to stir; to begin to act.
- v. (intransitive) To change residence, for example from one house, town, or state, to another; to go and…
- v. (intransitive, chess, and other games) To change the place of a piece in accordance with the rules of…
- v. (transitive, ergative) To cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion; to carry,…
- v. (transitive, chess) To transfer (a piece or man) from one space or position to another, according to the…
- v. (transitive) To excite to action by the presentation of motives; to rouse by representation, persuasion,…
- v. (transitive) To arouse the feelings or passions of; especially, to excite to tenderness or compassion,…
- v. (transitive, intransitive) To propose; to recommend; specifically, to propose formally for consideration…
- v. (transitive, obsolete) To mention; to raise (a question); to suggest (a course of action); to lodge (a…
- v. (transitive, obsolete) To incite, urge (someone to do something); to solicit (someone for or of an issue);…
- v. (transitive, obsolete) To apply to, as for aid.
- v. (law, transitive, intransitive) To request an action from the court.
- n. The act of moving; a movement.
- n. An act for the attainment of an object; a step in the execution of a plan or purpose.
- n. A formalized or practiced action used in athletics, dance, physical exercise, self-defense, hand-to-hand…
- n. The event of changing one's residence.
- n. A change in strategy.
- n. A transfer, a change from one employer to another.
- n. (board games) The act of moving a token on a gameboard from one position to another according to the rules…
origin- n. The beginning of something.
- n. The source of a river, information, goods, etc.
- n. (mathematics) The point at which the axes of a coordinate system intersect.
- n. (anatomy) The proximal end of attachment of a muscle to a bone that will not be moved by the action of…
- n. (cartography) An arbitrary point on Earth's surface, chosen as the zero for a system of coordinates.
- n. (in the plural) Ancestry.
outflow- n. The process of flowing out.
- v. (intransitive) To flow outward.
outpouring- n. The sudden flowing of a large amount of something.
produce- v. (transitive) To yield, make or manufacture; to generate.
- v. (transitive) To make (a thing) available to a person, an authority, etc.; to provide for inspection.
- v. (transitive, media) To sponsor and present (a motion picture, etc) to an audience or to the public.
- v. (mathematics) To extend an area, or lengthen a line.
- v. (obsolete) To draw out; to extend; to lengthen or prolong.
- n. Items produced.
- n. Amount produced.
- n. Harvested agricultural goods collectively, especially vegetables and fruit, but possibly including eggs,…
- n. Offspring.
- n. (Australia) Livestock and pet food supplies.
rebound- n. The recoil of an object bouncing off another.
- n. A return to health or well-being; a recovery.
- n. An effort to recover from a setback.
- n. A romantic partner with whom one begins a relationship (or the relationship one begins) for the sake of…
- n. (sports) The strike of the ball after it has bounced off a defending player, the crossbar or goalpost.
- n. (basketball) An instance of catching the ball after it has hit the rim or backboard without a basket being…
- v. To bound or spring back from a force.
- v. To give back an echo.
- v. (figuratively) To jump up or get back up again.
- v. (transitive) To send back; to reverberate.
- v. simple past tense and past participle of rebind.
recoil- n. A starting or falling back; a rebound; a shrinking.
- n. The state or condition of having recoiled.
- n. (firearms) The energy transmitted back to the shooter from a firearm which has fired. Recoil is a function…
- v. (intransitive, now rare) To retreat before an opponent.
- v. (obsolete, intransitive) To retire, withdraw.
- v. To pull back, especially in disgust, horror or astonishment.
- v. (of a firearm) To kick back when fired.
resile- v. To start back; to recoil; to recede from a purpose.
- v. To spring back; rebound; resume the original form or position, as an elastic body.
reveal- n. The outer side of a window or door frame; the jamb.
- n. (cinematography, comedy) A revelation; an uncovering of what was hidden.
- n. (chiefly Britain, Australia, New Zealand, obsolete in the US) The side of an opening for a window, doorway,…
- v. (transitive) To uncover; to show and display that which was hidden.
- v. (transitive) To communicate that which could not be known or discovered without divine or supernatural…
reverberate- v. (intransitive) to ring with many echos.
- v. (intransitive) to have a lasting effect.
- v. (intransitive) to repeatedly return.
- v. To return or send back; to repel or drive back; to echo, as sound; to reflect, as light, as light or heat.
- v. To send or force back; to repel from side to side.
- v. To fuse by reverberated heat.
- v. (intransitive) to rebound or recoil.
- v. (intransitive) to shine or reflect (from a surface, etc.).
- v. (obsolete) to shine or glow (on something) with reflected light.
- adj. reverberant.
- adj. Driven back, as sound; reflected.
ricochet- n. (military) A method of firing a projectile so that it skips along a surface.
- n. An instance of ricocheting; a glancing rebound.
- v. To rebound off something wildly in a seemingly random direction.
- v. (military) To operate upon by ricochet firing.
root- n. The part of a plant, generally underground, that anchors and supports the plant body, absorbs and stores…
- n. A root vegetable.
- n. The part of a tooth extending into the bone holding the tooth in place.
- n. The part of a hair under the skin that holds the hair in place.
- n. The part of a hair near the skin that has not been dyed, permed, or otherwise treated.
- n. The primary source; origin.
- n. (arithmetic) Of a number or expression, a number which, when raised to a specified power, yields the specified…
- n. (arithmetic) A square root (understood if no power is specified; in which case, “the root of” is often…
- n. (analysis) A zero (of an equation).
- n. (graph theory, computing) The single node of a tree that has no parent.
- n. (linguistic morphology) The primary lexical unit of a word, which carries the most significant aspects…
- n. (philology) A word from which another word or words are derived.
- n. (music) The fundamental tone of any chord; the tone from whose harmonics, or overtones, a chord is composed.
- n. The lowest place, position, or part.
- n. (computing) In UNIX terminology, the first user account with complete access to the operating system and…
- n. (computing) The highest directory of a directory structure which may contain both files and subdirectories.
- n. (slang) A penis, especially the base of a penis.
- v. (computing, slang, transitive) To break into a computer system and obtain root access.
- v. To fix the root; to enter the earth, as roots; to take root and begin to grow.
- v. To be firmly fixed; to be established.
- v. (transitive) To turn up or dig with the snout.
- v. (by extension) To seek favour or advancement by low arts or grovelling servility; to fawn.
- v. (intransitive) To rummage, to search as if by digging in soil.
- v. (transitive) To root out; to abolish.
- v. (Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, vulgar, slang) To have sexual intercourse.
- v. (horticulture, intransitive) To grow roots.
- v. (horticulture, transitive) To prepare, oversee, or otherwise cause the rooting of cuttings.
- n. (Australia, New Zealand, vulgar, slang) An act of sexual intercourse.
- n. (Australia, New Zealand, vulgar, slang) A sexual partner.
- v. (intransitive, with "for" or "on", US) To cheer (on); to show support (for) and hope for the success of…
saltation- n. A leap, jump or dance.
- n. Beating or palpitation.
- n. (biology) A sudden change from one generation to the next; a mutation.
- n. Any abrupt transition.
- n. (geology, fluid mechanics) The transport of loose particles by a fluid (such as wind or flowing water).
season- n. Each of the four divisions of a year: spring, summer, autumn (fall) and winter.
- n. A part of a year when something particular happens.
- n. (obsolete) That which gives relish; seasoning.
- n. (cricket) The period over which a series of Test matches are played.
- n. (Canada, US, broadcasting) A group of episodes of a television or radio program broadcast in regular intervals…
- n. (obsolete) An extended, undefined period of time.
- v. (transitive) To flavour food with spices, herbs or salt.
- v. (transitive) To make fit for any use by time or habit; to habituate; to accustom; to inure.
- v. (transitive) Hence, to prepare by drying or hardening, or removal of natural juices.
- v. (intransitive) To become mature; to grow fit for use; to become adapted to a climate.
- v. (intransitive) To become dry and hard, by the escape of the natural juices, or by being penetrated with…
- v. (obsolete) To copulate with; to impregnate.
snap- n. A quick breaking or cracking sound or the action of producing such a sound.
- n. A sudden break.
- n. An attempt to seize, bite, attack, or grab.
- n. The act of making a snapping sound by pressing the thumb and a opposing finger of the same hand together…
- n. A fastening device that makes a snapping sound when used.
- n. A photograph (an abbreviation of snapshot).
- n. The sudden release of something held under pressure or tension.
- n. A thin circular cookie or similar good.
- n. A brief, sudden period of a certain weather; used primarily in the phrase cold snap.
- n. A very short period of time (figuratively, the time taken to snap one's fingers), or a task that can be…
- n. A snap bean such as Phaseolus vulgaris.
- n. (American football) The passing of a football from the center to a back that begins play, a hike.
- n. (somewhat colloquial) A rivet: a scrapbooking embellishment.
- n. (Britain, regional) A small meal, a snack; lunch.
- n. (uncountable) A card game, primarily for children, in which players cry "snap" to claim pairs of matching…
- n. (obsolete) A greedy fellow.
- n. That which is, or may be, snapped up; something bitten off, seized, or obtained by a single quick movement;…
- n. briskness; vigour; energy; decision.
- n. (slang, archaic) Any circumstance out of which money may be made or an advantage gained. used primarily…
- n. (slang) Something that is easy or effortless.
- n. A snapper, or snap beetle.
- n. (physics, humorous) jounce (the fourth derivative of the position vector with respect to time), followed…
- n. A quick offhand shot with a firearm; a snap shot.
- n. (colloquial) Something of no value.
- n. A visual message sent on the application Snapchat.
- v. (intransitive, transitive) To fracture or break apart suddenly.
- v. (intransitive) To give forth or produce a sharp cracking noise; to crack.
- v. (intransitive) To attempt to seize with the teeth or bite.
- v. (intransitive) To attempt to seize with eagerness.
- v. (intransitive) To speak abruptly or sharply.
- v. (intransitive) To give way abruptly and loudly.
- v. (intransitive) To suffer a mental breakdown, usually while under tension.
- v. (intransitive) To flash or appear to flash as with light.
- v. (intransitive) To fit or fasten together with a snapping sound.
- v. (intransitive, computing, graphical user interface) To jump to a fixed position relative to another element.
- v. (transitive) To snatch with or as if with the teeth.
- v. (transitive) To pull apart with a snapping sound; to pop loose.
- v. (transitive) To say abruptly or sharply.
- v. (transitive, dated) To speak to abruptly or sharply; to treat snappishly; usually with up.
- v. (transitive) To cause something to emit a snapping sound.
- v. (transitive) To close something using a snap as a fastener.
- v. (transitive) To snap one's fingers: to make a snapping sound, often by pressing the thumb and an opposing…
- v. (transitive) To cause to move suddenly and smartly.
- v. (transitive) To take a photograph; to release a camera's shutter (which may make a snapping sound).
- v. (transitive, American football) To put the ball in play by passing it from the center to a back; to hike…
- v. To misfire.
- v. (cricket, transitive) To catch out sharply (a batsman who has just snicked a bowled ball).
- interj. The winning cry at a game of snap.
- interj. (Britain) By extension from the card game, "I've got one the same." or similar.
- interj. (Britain) Ritual utterance of agreement (after the cry in the card game snap).
- interj. (Canada, US) Used in place of expletive to express surprise, usually in response to a negative statement…
- interj. (Britain, Australia, New Zealand) Ritual utterance used after something is said by two people at exactly…
- adj. (informal) Done, performed, made, etc. quickly and without deliberation.
source- n. The person, place, or thing from which something (information, goods, etc.) comes or is acquired.
- n. Spring; fountainhead; wellhead; any collection of water on or under the surface of the ground in which…
- n. A reporter's informant.
- n. (computing) Source code.
- n. (electronics) The name of one terminal of a field effect transistor (FET).
- v. (chiefly US) To obtain or procure: used especially of a business resource.
- v. (transitive) To find information about (a quotation)'s source (from which it comes): to find a citation…
spring- v. To jump or leap.
- v. To pass over by leaping.
- v. To produce or disclose unexpectedly, especially of surprises, traps, etc.
- v. (slang) To release or set free, especially from prison.
- v. To come into being, often quickly or sharply.
- v. To start or rise suddenly, as from a covert.
- v. To cause to spring up; to start or rouse, as game; to cause to rise from the earth, or from a covert.
- v. (nautical) To crack or split; to bend or strain so as to weaken.
- v. To bend by force, as something stiff or strong; to force or put by bending, as a beam into its sockets,…
- v. To issue with speed and violence; to move with activity; to dart; to shoot.
- v. To fly back.
- v. (intransitive) To bend from a straight direction or plane surface; to become warped.
- v. To shoot up, out, or forth; to come to the light; to begin to appear; to emerge, like a plant from its…
- v. To issue or proceed, as from a parent or ancestor; to result, as from a cause, motive, reason, or principle.
- v. (obsolete) To grow; to prosper.
- v. (architecture, masonry, transitive) To build (an arch).
- v. (transitive, archaic) To sound (a rattle, such as a watchman's rattle).
- n. A leap; a bound; a jump.
- n. (countable) Traditionally the first of the four seasons of the year in temperate regions, in which plants…
- n. (countable) Meteorologically, the months of March, April and May in the northern hemisphere or September,…
- n. (countable) The astronomically delineated period from the moment of vernal equinox, approximately March…
- n. (countable) Spring tide; a tide of greater-than-average range, that is, around the first or third quarter…
- n. (countable) A place where water emerges from the ground.
- n. (uncountable) The property of a body of springing to its original form after being compressed, stretched,…
- n. Elastic power or force.
- n. (countable) A mechanical device made of flexible or coiled material that exerts force when it is bent,…
- n. (countable, slang) An erection of the penis.
- n. (countable) The source of an action or of a supply.
- n. Any active power; that by which action, or motion, is produced or propagated; cause; origin; motive.
- n. That which springs, or is originated, from a source.
- n. (obsolete) That which causes one to spring; specifically, a lively tune.
- n. The time of growth and progress; early portion; first stage.
- n. (countable, nautical) A rope attaching the bow of a vessel to the stern-side of the jetty, or vice versa,…
- n. (nautical) A line led from a vessel's quarter to her cable so that by tightening or slacking it she can…
- n. (nautical) A crack or fissure in a mast or yard, running obliquely or transversely.
springiness- n. The property of being springy.
springtime- n. The season of spring, between winter and summer.
unwrap- v. To open or undo, as what is wrapped or folded.
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