upsprout
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upsprout (third-person singular simple present upsprouts, present participle upsprouting, simple past and past participle upsprouted)
- (intransitive, poetic) To sprout up.
- 1883, George Henry Calvert, Sibyl, page 32:
- To-day he felt upsprout / Purest desires, and he hearkened / To those profoundest, wisest whispers / That in the sane will not be hushed;