Crossword clues for burgeon
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Burgeon \Bur"geon\, v. i. To bud. See Bourgeon.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 14c., "grow, sprout, blossom," from Anglo-French burjuner, Old French borjoner "to bud, sprout," from borjon "a bud, shoot, pimple" (Modern French bourgeon), of uncertain origin. Perhaps from Vulgar Latin *burrionem (nominative *burrio), from Late Latin burra "flock of wool," itself of uncertain origin. Some sources (Kitchin, Gamillscheg) say either the French word or the Vulgar Latin one is from Germanic. The English verb is perhaps instead a native development from burjoin (n.) "a bud" (c.1300), from Old French. Related: Burgeoned; burgeoning.
Wiktionary
n. (context obsolete English) bud, sprout, shoot vb. 1 (context intransitive English) To grow or expand. 2 (context intransitive English) To swell to the point of bursting. 3 (context intransitive archaic English) Of plants, to bloom, bud.
WordNet
v. grow and flourish; "The burgeoning administration"; "The burgeoning population"
Usage examples of "burgeon".
Another step down the tunnel unfolded the burgeoning tension as Arithon sought to recover the broached grace of his privacy.
Yet his obsession had burgeoned into something far more profound than desire.
His hands left her hair to roam her length, at first in gentle inquiry, and then with burgeoning impatience as he sought to learn and explore all of her flesh at once.
With burgeoning impatience they removed her clothing layer by layer until finally she stood as God had made her, swathed in nothing but the mass of dark hair that fell across her breasts and hung past her waist.
His groin tightened painfully at the thought, and he angrily tempered the burgeoning lust.
Swan asked belligerently, determined to quash any burgeoning feelings she might have.
She was not blind to the threats to Silverfox and herself, nor was she unaware of the powers burgeoning within the child.
That child has now come of age, an event that has triggered a renewed burgeoning of the Faitha second Embrasure has occurred, under the command of the First Child, Anaster.
A position demanding a sudden burgeoning of his ego, the unassailable belief in his own efficacy.
Beyond it, filling the sky above the harbour, was an enormous storm-cloud, flashes burgeoning from its heaving depths.
But for all their burgeoning vileness, there was something about their spread that smacked of desperation.
Hating it and the system which said that he could do more for his burgeoning career by working for a soldier in the field than he could by strollingor sedan-chairingaround the Forum Romanum.
He had revamped the training of recruits, choosing only the best and making great knights of them, and he had built facilities for his burgeoning army, gutting the abandoned buildings of Chancellery Square and turning them into useful war schools and barracks.
Ever determined to secure her reign, she spent her burgeoning fortune on the best mercenaries in the world, keeping them loyal with lucrative contracts.
Starbuck contracted with hundreds of small, under-financed ranches to supply beef for the burgeoning markets in America and Europe, and a certain percentage of failures and bankruptcies were expected.