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bourgeon

British  
/ ˈbɜːdʒən /

noun

  1. a variant spelling of burgeon

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Their problems began to bourgeon immediately after they left New Jersey and went to Kedzie's old apartment for further debate as to their future lodgings.

From We Can't Have Everything by Rupert Hughes

And further still the summer, When thy fair tree, fully grown, Shall bourgeon, and grow splendid With blossoms of its own, And the fruit begins to gather, But the buttercups are mown.

From The Home Book of Verse — Volume 1 by Burton Egbert Stevenson

My budding Daphne wanted scope To bourgeon all her flowers of hope.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 58, August, 1862 by Various

Heaven send it happy dew, Earth lend it sap anew, Gayly to bourgeon, and broadly to grow, While every Highland glen Sends our shout back again, “Roderigh Vich Alpine dhu, ho! ieroe!”

From Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7 by Charles Herbert Sylvester

“Clear away the parasitic forms That seem to keep her up, but drag her down; Leave her space to bourgeon out of all Within her.”

From The Education of American Girls by Anna C. (Anna Callender) Brackett

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