BURGEON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does burgeon mean? 

• BURGEON (verb)
  The verb BURGEON has 1 sense:

1. grow and flourish

  Familiarity information: BURGEON used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BURGEON (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they burgeon    ... he / she / it burgeons   
Past simple: burgeoned   
Past participle: burgeoned   
-ing form: burgeoning   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Grow and flourish

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Context example:

The burgeoning population

Hypernyms (to "burgeon" is one way to...):

grow (become larger, greater, or bigger; expand or gain)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

 Context examples 

He felt like a prince returned from exile, and his lonely heart burgeoned in the geniality in which it bathed.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

There was a burgeoning within him of strange feelings and unwonted impulses.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

The youth of the race seemed burgeoning in me, over-civilized man that I was, and I lived for myself the old hunting days and forest nights of my remote and forgotten ancestry.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

By removing a top predator, their prey can burgeon and compromise the food chain all the way down, affecting seafood consumed by people, the study says.

(New way to save endangered sharks – and our seafood, SciDev.Net)

Know then that if these rows were dug up the wealth of the country would be gone, and mayhap there would be dry throats and gaping mouths in England, for in three months' time these black roots will blossom and shoot and burgeon, and from them will come many a good ship-load of Medoc and Gascony which will cross the narrow seas.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She was overcome with shame and with the mystery of her own burgeoning womanhood.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)