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Budded

Bud \Bud\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Budded; p. pr. & vb. n. Budding.]

  1. To put forth or produce buds, as a plant; to grow, as a bud does, into a flower or shoot.

  2. To begin to grow, or to issue from a stock in the manner of a bud, as a horn.

  3. To be like a bud in respect to youth and freshness, or growth and promise; as, a budding virgin.
    --Shak.

    Syn: To sprout; germinate; blossom.

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budded

vb. (en-past of: bud)

WordNet
bud
  1. n. a partially opened flower

  2. a swelling on a plant stem consisting of overlapping immature leaves or petals

  3. [also: budding, budded]

bud
  1. v. develop buds; "The hibiscus is budding!"

  2. start to grow or develop; "a budding friendship"

  3. [also: budding, budded]

budded

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Usage examples of "budded".

In consequence, it was into a community more prosperous than its isolation might have suggested that Tenthaghalf a score of generations in direct succession from Agnis himselfwas budded in the year called Two-red-stars-turn-blue.

Barratong was in the grip of a vision budded of his vivid imagination, yet founded securely upon facta vision of a kind it was given to few to endure without slipping into fatal dreamness.

And then there are elderly folk among my own people who say that when they were budded certain stars were not so bright as they are now .

Still, his father Ninthag was a perennial optimist and, despite the pleas of Sixthon who had budded Tenthag for him and never childed with anybody else, he was happy to turn a blind eye when his son did what in olden times all young'uns were accustomed togo swimming out of storm-season on the northern coastalong with Fifthorch, who was next-to-youngest.

Weak, but calm, they began to mutter among themselves that Tenthag had been right, and they were stupid not to have insisted on being shown a budded she'un before parting with their goods.

There was a muddle of memory and imagination, a chaotic slew of information and sensory input, and what trace of identity did remainthanks to his having been budded on a small but wealthy city, where no one in living memory had gone dreamish through simple hungerwas capable of no more than observation: as it were, "So this is what must have happened to our poor ancestors who multiplied themselves without making provision for proper nourishment!

We're budded, and we die, and in between we make the most of what's offered to us, and afterwards whatever it was that made us us returns to whence it came.

And then there are elderly folk among my own people who say that when they were budded certain stars were not so bright as they are now.

In consequence, it was into a community more prosperous than its isolation might have suggested that Tenthag-half a score of generations in direct succession from Agnis himself-was budded in the year called Two-red-stars-turn-blue.

There was a muddle of memory and imagination, a chaotic slew of information and sensory input, and what trace of identity did remain-thanks to his having been budded on a small but wealthy city, where no one in living memory had gone dreamish through simple hunger-was capable of no more than observation: as it were, “So this is what must have happened to our poor ancestors who multiplied themselves without making provision for proper nourishment!

Melody's own Kirlian ancestor had been an Andromedan transferee of that Sphere who had budded with the revered Flint of Outworld, both in Mintakan hosts, a thousand Solarian years before.

She saw suddenly that this was another reason that she had never budded.

She could have budded already with some lesser male, but only the high-Kirlian male had really excited her.

It seemed to Imrhien that the living stave began to sprout with unnerving swiftness—that toothed briars, sharp nettles, and gorses budded and whipped out from its rind, tangling tentacles, weaving in and out betwixt walls and street, growing higher until within a few blinks of the eye they had formed a shadowy trellis of thorns.

Or else a new universe can be budded from the singularity at the heart of a black hole.