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Meaning of spring out | Babel Free

Verb CEFR B2

Definitions

  1. To break out; to escape.
  2. To emerge or arise.
  3. To spend the season of spring in outdoor pursuits such as camping.
  4. To gush, spurt, or flow, particularly in the manner of blood.
    figuratively, obsolete
  5. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see spring, out.

Examples

“A pattern was emerging. Celtic were enjoying sustained periods of possession and pressure while Rangers were attempting to spring out on the counter.”
“After this shall rise among you a Star out of jarob, and a Man shall spring out of my Seed, which shall walk as the Day-Sun of Righteousness among the children of Men, in Peace and Meekness, and Righteousness, and no Sin shall be found in him.”
“Heimo and Edna have been “springing out” at one of their three cabins ever since they were married, twenty years ago.”
“Herodes... was i-tormented wiþ... wormes þat welled þat sprang out of his prive harneys.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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