Crossword-Solution: SPRING
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Spring | v. i. | To leap; to bound; to jump. |
| Spring | v. i. | To issue with speed and violence; to move with activity; to dart; to shoot. |
| Spring | v. i. | To start or rise suddenly, as from a covert. |
| Spring | v. i. | To fly back; as, a bow, when bent, springs back by its elastic power. |
| Spring | v. i. | To bend from a straight direction or plane surface; to become warped; as, a piece of timber, or a plank, sometimes springs in seasoning. |
| Spring | v. i. | To shoot up, out, or forth; to come to the light; to begin to appear; to emerge; as a plant from its seed, as streams from their source, and the like; -often followed by up, forth, or out. |
| Spring | v. i. | To issue or proceed, as from a parent or ancestor; to result, as from a cause, motive, reason, or principle. |
| Spring | v. i. | To grow; to prosper. |
| Spring | v. t. | To cause to spring up; to start or rouse, as game; to cause to rise from the earth, or from a covert; as, to spring a pheasant. |
| Spring | v. t. | To produce or disclose suddenly or unexpectedly. |
| Spring | v. t. | To cause to explode; as, to spring a mine. |
| Spring | v. t. | To crack or split; to bend or strain so as to weaken; as, to spring a mast or a yard. |
| Spring | v. t. | To cause to close suddenly, as the parts of a trap operated by a spring; as, to spring a trap. |
| Spring | v. t. | To bend by force, as something stiff or strong; to force or put by bending, as a beam into its sockets, and allowing it to straighten when in place; -- often with in, out, etc.; as, to spring in a slat or a bar. |
| Spring | v. t. | To pass over by leaping; as, to spring a fence. |
| Spring | v. i. | A leap; a bound; a jump. |
| Spring | v. i. | A flying back; the resilience of a body recovering its former state by elasticity; as, the spring of a bow. |
| Spring | v. i. | Elastic power or force. |
| Spring | v. i. | An elastic body of any kind, as steel, India rubber, tough wood, or compressed air, used for various mechanical purposes, as receiving and imparting power, diminishing concussion, regulating motion, measuring weight or other force. |
| Spring | v. i. | Any source of supply; especially, the source from which a stream proceeds; as issue of water from the earth; a natural fountain. |
| Spring | v. i. | Any active power; that by which action, or motion, is produced or propagated; cause; origin; motive. |
| Spring | v. i. | That which springs, or is originated, from a source; |
| Spring | v. i. | A race; lineage. |
| Spring | v. i. | A youth; a springal. |
| Spring | v. i. | A shoot; a plant; a young tree; also, a grove of trees; woodland. |
| Spring | v. i. | That which causes one to spring; specifically, a lively tune. |
| Spring | v. i. | The season of the year when plants begin to vegetate and grow; the vernal season, usually comprehending the months of March, April, and May, in the middle latitudes north of the equator. |
| Spring | v. i. | The time of growth and progress; early portion; first stage. |
| Spring | v. i. | A crack or fissure in a mast or yard, running obliquely or transversely. |
| Spring | v. i. | A line led from a vessel's quarter to her cable so that by tightening or slacking it she can be made to lie in any desired position; a line led diagonally from the bow or stern of a vessel to some point upon the wharf to which she is moored. |
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Sentences with SPRING (5)
From questions of this class spring all our constitutional controversies, and we divide upon them into majorities and minorities.
Darling saw his mouth twitch, and she made this handsome offer: to let Wendy go to him for a week every year to do his spring cleaning.
From Kabibonokka’s forehead, From his snow-besprinkled tresses, Drops of sweat fell fast and heavy, Making dints upon the ashes, As along the eaves of lodges, As from drooping boughs of hemlock, Drips the melting snow in spring-time, Making hollows in the snow-drifts.
Thus _Beelzebub_ Pleaded his devilish Counsel, first devis’d By _Satan_, and in part propos’d: for whence, But from the Author of all ill could Spring So deep a malice, to confound the race Of mankind in one root, and Earth with Hell To mingle and involve, done all to spite The great Creatour? But thir spite still serves His glory to augment.
The Crow put an end to the dispute by saying, “Your feathers are all very well in the spring, but mine protect me against the winter.” Fair weather friends are not worth much.
Quotes with SPRING (3)
What I need is the dandelion in the spring. The bright yellow that means rebirth instead of destruction. The promise that life can go on, no matter how bad our losses. That it can be good again.
I want to do with you what spring does with the cherry trees.
Of course I’ll hurt you. Of course you’ll hurt me. Of course we will hurt each other. But this is the very condition of existence. To become spring, means accepting the risk of winter. To become presence, means accepting the risk of absence.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 58 times in crossword archives (1947–2025).