sprung
/spɹʌŋ/ adjective B2- Fitted or cushioned with springs. · Near-synonym: spring-loaded· a sprung mattress
- Worn out such that the springiness has dissipated. · My old money clip was sprung, so I replaced it.
- Utterly infatuated with someone; completely taken over by romantic interest; originally and literally, having a penile erection.
- drunk.
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Let what may remain of revolutionary sap exhaust itself and die away with the old trunk, and condescend only to regard the young shoot which has started up at a distance from the parent tree, without having the power, any more than the wish, to separate entirely from the stock from which it sprung.”
John Douglas of Birlstone Manor, then whose death have we been investigating for these two days, and where in the world have you sprung from now?
Sherlock Holmes had sprung out and seized the intruder by the collar.
Anne evidently got through her visit without any serious breach of “etiquette,” for she came home through the twilight, under a great, high-sprung sky gloried over with trails of saffron and rosy cloud, in a beatified state of mind and told Marilla all about it happily, sitting on the big red-sandstone slab at the kitchen door with her tired curly head in Marilla’s gingham lap.
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