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Meaning of spring into action | Babel Free

Verb CEFR C1

Definitions

To begin doing something or become active suddenly and very quickly.

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Examples

“At once the two henchmen sprang into action. Fingers grabbed Frank by looping his arms under the boy’s. He scooped him off the floor. “Get off me!” screamed the boy as he struggled to get away.”
““Springing into action is not the easy choice,” chef and humanitarian José Andrés, a two-time TIME100 honoree, writes in his tribute to Prince Harry and Meghan, The Duke and Duchess of Sussex.”

CEFR level

C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.

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