spring into/to action/life

: dart, shoot

: to be resilient or elastic

: to become warped

: a source of supply

: an ultimate source especially of action or motion

: spring tide

: to fit with springs

: a thing done : deed

: the accomplishment of a thing usually over a period of time, in stages, or with the possibility of repetition

: behavior, conduct

: the quality that distinguishes a vital and functional being from a dead body

: a principle or force that is considered to underlie the distinctive quality of animate beings

: an organismic state characterized by capacity for metabolism (see metabolism 1), growth, reaction to stimuli, and reproduction

: of or relating to animate being

: lifelong

: using a living model