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burgeon

/bur-juhn/US // ˈbɜr dʒən //UK // (ˈbɜːdʒən) //

突起,兴起,涌现,爆发

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Definitions

v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to grow or develop quickly; flourish: The town burgeoned into a city. He burgeoned into a fine actor.
    • : to begin to grow, as a bud; put forth buds, shoots, etc., as a plant.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to put forth, as buds.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a bud; sprout.

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Examples

  • The leaves burgeon on the branches in the serial order that gives to each its share of sun and rain.

  • Then the tree began to bud and burgeon with gifts, and the rare glories of colour crept in upon the snows of winter.

  • Her heart expanded, her soul seemed to burgeon and to bloom.

  • Ale in a Saxon rumkin then, makes valor burgeon in tall men.

  • Unless a writer feels free, things will not come to him, he cannot burgeon on any subject whatsoever.