to spring up
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3.3
- phrasal verb
:
surgir
- New businesses often spring up in areas that attract a lot of tourists.
- around the country spring up
- towns spring up
- new settlements spring up
Bicycle shops spring up in a year.
- Bicycle shops spring up in a year.
- It just that when wildfires spring up, they let them burn off.
- This is like we think of thoughts as something that springs up from neurons firing.
- That's from, yeah, organic movements that suddenly spring up that came out of nowhere.
- This has been the catalyst for a protest movement springing up among the Comb and Mokavi people.
- Then Cali sprung up and I I spent four days in the house with the Miguel.
Examples
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Chapters have sprung up in five or six other major cities already.
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"Pretty soon little housing developments started to spring up outside of town, getting closer to us."
Fiction book (1993) -
Well, it seems that for every question you answered, three or four more questions spring up.
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And along with that, a lot of sleep advice has sprung up on social media.
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There are tent cities springing up all over the country.
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New threats are springing up daily.
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Political parties representing such groups have sprung up and are increasing in popularity.
Academic text (1997) -
Merchants, banks and currencies spring up to promote trade.
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Ingenuity springs up in the most unexpected places.
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Yes, soon there'll be a regular town springing up: streets, hotels.
Synonyms
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4.0
To become known or start to exist, for example as an idea
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2.0
To make something open or appear quickly
333
3.3
Start to exist or happen
153
3.8
To start or create something
145
2.5
To appear or happen suddenly
65
2.6
To begin to exist or start to develop
28
7.6
To grow or increase very quickly
20
2.9
To appear suddenly without warning
20
4.3
To appear suddenly, often as a problem or question
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4.2
Appear from a place, often suddenly
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5.4
Suddenly start to happen with a lot of energy
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3.4
Start suddenly and appear or happen quickly
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6.1
Suddenly appear in a place or in someone's mind and surprise people
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4.9
Appear suddenly and without warning
Antonyms
How Quickly
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'to appear or begin suddenly' is directly derivable from combining 'spring' (to appear or emerge suddenly) with the directional/completive particle 'up', so a learner who knows both words can infer the event-of-appearing sense. This verb+particle composition is a common, predictable pattern in English (and parallels exist in many languages), making the MWE immediately comprehensible to a B1 learner.
Etymology
Spring up comes from the image of a plant or a metal spring suddenly jumping up out of the ground. So when something springs up today, it 'appears suddenly' or 'starts' quickly.