what does spring up mean?
SPRING UP as VERB
- Meaning
- come into existence
- take on form or shape
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- A new religious movement originated in that country
- a love that sprang up from friendship
- the idea for the book grew out of a short story
- An interesting phenomenon uprose
Hypernyms(s) spring up is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
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