Sprouting
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Sprouting is a verb meaning present participle and gerund of sprout.
Meaning
present participle and gerund of sprout.
More Meanings
- The act by which something sprouts.
Example Sentences
The historical record before the war and after shows a tendency toward independent political action in the recurrent sproutings of numerous Labor Reform and Workingmen's parties[…]
What is unbearable, in fact, is the feeling, 13 years after 9/11, that America has been chasing its tail; that, in some whack-a-mole horror show, the quashing of a jihadi enclave here only spurs the sprouting of another there; that the ideology of Al Qaeda is still reverberating through a blocked Arab world whose Sunni-Shia balance (insofar as that went) was upended by the American invasion of Iraq.
Word Forms
- sproutings
Synonyms for sprouting
Depending on context, synonyms include germination.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include germination, budding, preharvest, germinating, start, spring.
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