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Spring up

verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To appear suddenly. intransitive

    "A breeze had sprung up, pushing the ship back within range of the Spanish cannons."

  2. 2
    come into existence; take on form or shape wordnet
  3. 3
    To come rapidly into existence. figuratively, intransitive

    "In 1924 the Hashemite King Hussein was driven out of the Hedjaz by Ibn Saud, and a state of war sprang up between the new kingdoms of Saudi Arabia and Trans-Jordan."

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