Crossword clues for sprung
sprung
- Released from jail
- Recoiled, ... back
- Out of the lockup
- Out of the cooler
- Like a trap in need of resetting
- Helped get out
- Helped by a third party to escape from jail
- Got out of the pen
- Got out of jail
- Freed from the slammer
- Broken out
- Bailed out, so to speak
- "Spring has ___"
- "Get 'Em Outta Here" ___ Monkey
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Spring \Spring\ (spr[i^]ng), v. i. [imp. Sprang (spr[a^]ng) or Sprung (spr[u^]ng); p. p. Sprung; p. pr. & vb. n. Springing.] [AS. springan; akin to D. & G. springen, OS. & OHG. springan, Icel. & Sw. springa, Dan. springe; cf. Gr. spe`rchesqai to hasten. Cf. Springe, Sprinkle.]
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To leap; to bound; to jump.
The mountain stag that springs From height to height, and bounds along the plains.
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To issue with speed and violence; to move with activity; to dart; to shoot.
And sudden light Sprung through the vaulted roof.
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To start or rise suddenly, as from a covert.
Watchful as fowlers when their game will spring.
--Otway. To fly back; as, a bow, when bent, springs back by its elastic power.
To bend from a straight direction or plane surface; to become warped; as, a piece of timber, or a plank, sometimes springs in seasoning.
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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.
Till well nigh the day began to spring.
--Chaucer.To satisfy the desolate and waste ground, and to cause the bud of the tender herb to spring forth.
--Job xxxviii. 2 -
Do not blast my springing hopes.
--Rowe.O, spring to light; auspicious Babe, be born.
--Pope.7. To issue or proceed, as from a parent or ancestor; to result, as from a cause, motive, reason, or principle.
[They found] new hope to spring Out of despair, joy, but with fear yet linked.
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To grow; to thrive; to prosper.
What makes all this, but Jupiter the king, At whose command we perish, and we spring?
--Dryden.To spring at, to leap toward; to attempt to reach by a leap.
To spring forth, to leap out; to rush out.
To spring in, to rush in; to enter with a leap or in haste.
To spring on or To spring upon, to leap on; to rush on with haste or violence; to assault.
Sprung \Sprung\ (spr[u^]ng), imp. & p. p. of Spring.
Sprung \Sprung\, a. (Naut.) Said of a spar that has been cracked or strained.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
past participle of spring (v.).
Wiktionary
1 (context slang African American Vernacular English English) Utterly infatuated with someone; completely taken over by romantic interest. 2 (context obsolete nautical of a spar English) cracked or strained v
1 (past participle of spring English) 2 (alternative form of sprang dot= English): (en-simple past of: spring)
WordNet
n. the season of growth; "the emerging buds were a sure sign of spring"; "he will hold office until the spring of next year" [syn: springtime]
a natural flow of ground water [syn: fountain, outflow, outpouring, natural spring]
a metal elastic device that returns to its shape or position when pushed or pulled or pressed; "the spring was broken"
a light springing movement upwards or forwards [syn: leap, leaping, saltation, bound, bounce]
the elasticity of something that can be stretched and returns to its original length [syn: give, springiness]
a point at which water issues forth
See spring
v. move forward by leaps and bounds; "The horse bounded across the meadow"; "The child leapt across the puddle"; "Can you jump over the fence?" [syn: jump, leap, bound]
develop into a distinctive entity; "our plans began to take shape" [syn: form, take form, take shape]
spring back; spring away from an impact; "The rubber ball bounced"; "These particles do not resile but they unite after they collide" [syn: bounce, resile, take a hop, bound, rebound, recoil, reverberate, ricochet]
produce or disclose suddenly or unexpectedly; "He sprang a new haircut on his wife"
develop suddenly; "The tire sprang a leak"
produce or disclose suddenly or unexpectedly; "He sprang these news on me just as I was leaving"
Wikipedia
Sprung is a video game for the Nintendo DS. It was released in North America on December 7, 2004. Sprung puts players in the shoes of either Becky or Brett who try to get an NPC of the opposite sex to fall in love with them. Players "flirt" their way through conversations; player responses influence the resulting NPC dialogue. Sprung can be regarded as a dating sim, though the linearity and variety in the game (as well as its humor) lend it more to being an adventure game. The working title for Sprung was Crush.
Sprung (Music from and Inspired by the Motion Picture) is a soundtrack to the 1997 comedy film Sprung. It is composed of 17 swingbeat and hip hop tracks by artists ranging from Canibus to Aaliyah.
Sprung may refer to:
- Sprung rhythm a poetic rhythm designed to imitate the rhythm of natural speech
- Sprung mass (or sprung weight) the portion of the vehicle's total mass that is supported above the suspension
- Sprung floor, a floor that absorbs shocks
Usage examples of "sprung".
I, Ragna, chieftain of the Kalimor, hereby curse him as anathema, and decree the punishment of death by fire to burn out this disease that has sprung up among us!
The Scammell reversed out and by the time it was back with the next trailer, the first had been parked and bowsed down with the sprung steel securing shackles.
The glass-clad buildings which had recently sprung up there were epic exercises in New Brutalist style, so far as Minogue could make out.
Hydrosudopathy or Hydropathy, as it is sometimes called, is a new medical doctrine or practice which has sprung up in Germany since Homoeopathy, which it bids fair to drive out of the market, if, as Dr.
Hatch could see that the legs and arms were massively fractured, the ribs sprung from the breastplate, the skull crushed.
Much as he enjoyed maturing his ghost plot, he enjoyed still more the confidential talks with Kate that had sprung out of it, and he was sorry that this was to be the last of them.
I opened my eyes and saw that Mouton had sprung at his face and was tearing the skin with his claws as if it had been a linen rag.
Coleridge found out the objections to Pantisocracy in a very short space of time, and a decided coolness had sprung up between him and Madame la Revolution before another two years had passed.
Thinking he had but one man to finish, Parrell had sprung upon the lawyer.
Win, spin, begin, swim, strike, stick, sing, sting, fling, ring, wring, spring, swing, drink, sink, shrink, stink, come, run, find, bind, grind, wind, both in the preterit imperfect and participle passive, give won, spun, begun, swum, struck, stuck, sung, stung, flung, rung, wrung, sprung, swung, drunk, sunk, shrunk, stunk, come, run, found, bound, ground, wound.
Sprung, in other words, from the Intellectual-Principle, Soul is intellective, but with an intellection operation by the method of reasonings: for its perfecting it must look to that Divine Mind, which may be thought of as a father watching over the development of his child born imperfect in comparison with himself.
Laurent had pushed back the persiennes, and a magical panorama had sprung into view: the whole range of the mountains behind Nice, their snow-caps suffused with a heavenly rose colour by the setting sun.
Being born with the individual, they can not be produced by conditions affecting him, but rather to something affecting the germ plasm from which he sprung.
That all this was preconcerted there can be no doubt, but, before the mine was sprung on me,--immediately, indeed, on my arrival, if I remember rightly,--an application was made to me for 500 pounds, so that the money might be exacted before the truth was known to me.
Tower of Babel which has sprung up in Paris has killed that pretention, I think we shall feel and speak more modestly about our stone hyperbole, our materialization of the American love of the superlative.