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spring

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of spring

1 an act of leaping into the air

the deer gave a sudden spring and disappeared into the woods

Synonyms of spring

bound, hop, jump, leap, vault

Words Related to spring

bounce, lope, skip

caper, capriole, gambado, gambol

dive, pitch, plunge

2 a point or place at which something is invented or provided

the springs of this time-honored tradition run too deep to allow for easy explanation

Synonyms of spring

cradle, font, fountain, fountainhead, origin, root, seedbed, source, well, wellspring

Words Related to spring

beginning, commencement, dawn, day one, genesis, get-go (also git-go), inception, incipience, incipiency, kickoff, launch, morning, nascence, nascency, onset, outset, start, threshold

baseline, first base, ground zero, square one

spring

verb

Synonyms and Antonyms of spring

1 to come into existence

when it comes to love and romance, hope springs eternally

Synonyms of spring

actualize, appear, arise, begin, break, commence, dawn, engender, form, materialize, originate, set in, start

Words Related to spring

be, breathe, exist, live, subsist

arrive, come on, emerge

coalesce, cohere, shape (up)

continue, endure, last, persist, survive

Near Antonyms of spring

conclude, desist, discontinue, finish, halt, quit, terminate

disappear, dissolve, evaporate, vanish

depart, die, expire, pass away, perish

Antonyms of spring

cease, end, stop

2 to propel oneself upward or forward into the air

the cat sprang and pounced on the mouse

Synonyms of spring

bound, hop, jump, leap, vault

Words Related to spring

bounce, hurdle, leapfrog, lope, skip

caper, capriole, cavort, frolic, gambol, romp

shoot, skyrocket

3 to set free (as from slavery or confinement)

had to spend a night in jail until their lawyer could come to spring them

Synonyms of spring

discharge, disenthrall (also disenthral), emancipate, enfranchise, enlarge, free, liberate, loose, loosen, manumit, release, unbind, uncage, unchain, unfetter

Words Related to spring

bail (out), deliver, parole, ransom, redeem, rescue, save

disembarrass, disencumber, disengage, disentangle, extricate

Phrases Synonymous with spring

Near Antonyms of spring

handcuff, manacle, shackle, trammel

commit, immure, imprison, incarcerate, intern, jail, lock (up)

conquer, enslave, subdue, subjugate

Antonyms of spring

bind, confine, enchain, fetter, restrain

Synonym Discussion of spring

spring, arise, rise, originate, derive, flow, issue, emanate, proceed, stem mean to come up or out of something into existence. spring implies rapid or sudden emerging.

- an idea that springs to mind

arise and rise may both convey the fact of coming into existence or notice but rise often stresses gradual growth or ascent.

- new questions have arisen
- slowly rose to prominence

originate implies a definite source or starting point.

- the fire originated in the basement

derive implies a prior existence in another form.

- the holiday derives from an ancient Roman feast

flow adds to spring a suggestion of abundance or ease of inception.

- words flowed easily from her pen

issue suggests emerging from confinement through an outlet.

- blood issued from the cut

emanate applies to the coming of something immaterial (such as a thought) from a source.

- reports emanating from the capital

proceed stresses place of origin, derivation, parentage, or logical cause.

- advice that proceeds from the best of intentions

stem implies originating by dividing or branching off from something as an outgrowth or subordinate development.

- industries stemming from space research

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