bud
/bʌd/ verb C2- To form buds. · The trees are finally starting to bud.
- To reproduce by splitting off buds. · Yeast reproduces by budding.
- To begin to grow, or to issue from a stock in the manner of a bud, as a horn. · Seeds of dissent were budding among the recruits.
- To be like a bud in respect to youth and freshness, or growth and promise.
- To put forth as a bud.
- To graft by inserting a bud under the bark of another tree.
He/she/it buds · Past budded · Past participle budded · -ing form budding
Verb forms
- Base form
- bud
- He/she/it
- buds
- Past
- budded
- Past participle
- budded
- -ing form
- budding
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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Père Pamphile had seen Dantès pass not ten minutes before; and assured that he was at the Catalans, they sat down under the budding foliage of the planes and sycamores, in the branches of which the birds were singing their welcome to one of the first days of spring.
The maples in Lover’s Lane were red budded and little curly ferns pushed up around the Dryad’s Bubble.
She probably imagined that she was thinking about the Aids and their missionary box and the new carpet for the vestry room, but under these reflections was a harmonious consciousness of red fields smoking into pale-purply mists in the declining sun, of long, sharp-pointed fir shadows falling over the meadow beyond the brook, of still, crimson-budded maples around a mirrorlike wood pool, of a wakening in the world and a stir of hidden pulses under the gray sod.
To the society bud comes but one début; it stands alone sweet in her memory when her hair has whitened; but to Chandler each ten weeks brought a joy as keen, as thrilling, as new as the first had been.
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