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shooting up
| Main Entry: |
budding
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| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | developing, flowering |
| Synonyms: | beginning, blossoming, burgeoning, bursting forth, embryonic, fledgling, fresh, germinal, germinating, growing, incipient, maturing, nascent, opening, potential, promising, pubescent, pullulating, shooting up, sprouting, vegetating, young |
| Antonyms: | dying, shrinking, withering |
| Main Entry: | mature |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | become adult, fully grown |
| Synonyms: | advance, age, arrive, attain majority, become experienced, become wise, bloom, blossom, come of age, culminate, develop, evolve, fill out, flower*, grow, grow up, maturate, mellow*, mushroom, perfect, prime, progress, reach adulthood, reach majority, ripen, round, season, settle down, shoot up |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | mushroom |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | sprout; grow quickly |
| Synonyms: | augment, blow up, boom, burgeon, burst, detonate, expand, explode, flourish, go off, grow, grow rapidly, increase, luxuriate, proliferate, shoot up, spread, spring up |
| Notes: | neither mushroom (possibly from 'moss'?) nor toadstool (a fanciful name) is a scientific designation |
| Antonyms: | shrink, shrivel |
| Main Entry: | raise |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | increase, augment |
| Synonyms: | advance, aggravate, amplify, assemble, boost, build up, collect, congregate, congress, dignify, enhance, enlarge, escalate, exaggerate, exalt, fetch up, forgather, form, gather, get, goose up, goose, heighten, hike, hike up, honor, inflate, intensify, jack up, jump, jump up, levy, look up, magnify, mass, mobilize, mushroom, muster, obtain, perk up, pick up, promote, put up, pyramid, rally, recruit, reinforce, rendezvous, run up, send through the roof, shoot up, snowball, strengthen, up |
| Notes: | to raise is 'to bring something up'; to rise is 'to get up' one rears children and raises crops |
| Antonyms: | decrease, depress, diminish, lessen, lower, reduce |
| Main Entry: | skyrocket |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | soar |
| Synonyms: | arise, ascend, catapult, escalate, go through the ceiling, go through the roof, lift, rise, rocket, shoot, shoot up, take off, tower, vault up, zoom |
| Main Entry: | soar |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | climb, fly |
| Synonyms: | arise, ascend, aspire, escalate, glide, lift, mount, rise, rocket, sail, shoot, shoot up, skyrocket, top, tower, up, uprear, wing |
| Antonyms: | land |
| Main Entry: | spring |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | originate, emerge |
| Synonyms: | appear, arise, arrive, be derived, be descended, begin, birth, burgeon, come, come into being, come into existence, come out, commence, derive, descend, develop, emanate, flow, grow, hatch, head, issue, loom, mushroom, proceed, rise, shoot up, start, stem, upspring |
| Main Entry: | sprout |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | develop |
| Synonyms: | bud, burgeon, germinate, grow, push, shoot, shoot up, spring, take root, vegetate |
| Antonyms: | die, shrink, shrivel |
| Main Entry: | stretch |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | extend, elongate |
| Synonyms: | amplify, branch out, bridge, burst forth, cover, crane, develop, distend, drag out, draw, draw out, expand, fill, go, grow, inflate, lengthen, lie out, magnify, make, make taut, make tense, open, overlap, pad, prolong, prolongate, protract, pull, pull out, pyramid, rack, range, reach, recline, repose, run, shoot up, span, spin out, spread, spread out, spring up, strain, string out, swell, tauten, tighten, unfold, unroll, widen |
| Antonyms: | compress, concentrate |
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