burgeoning

[ bur-juh-ning ]

/ ˈbɜr dʒə nɪŋ /

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adjective

growing or developing quickly:The company was criticized for not doing more to pare down its burgeoning debt.

(of a plant) putting forth buds, flowers, shoots, etc.:The overcast sky was more than made up for by the brilliant purple blossoms of the burgeoning jacaranda trees.

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Rarely bour·geon·ing .

Origin of burgeoning

burgeon + -ing²

How to use burgeoning in a sentence

Eventually, Usher shifted slightly toward the then-bourgeoning dance trend.
Why U Still Love Usher, Baby|Rawiya Kameir|May 14, 2014|DAILY BEAST
With every advance of money, he looked upon her with a more possessive eye, and felt bourgeoning within him ancient fires.
Lost Face|Jack London
A sense of renewal and bourgeoning was upon him, that feeling of waking from a dream and finding the beloved is, after all, alive.
The Prisoner|Alice Brown
When rains come the emerald hills laugh with delight as bourgeoning bloom is spread in the sunlight.
Canyons of the Colorado|J. W. Powell

Now will I get me up unto mine own forests And behold their bourgeoning.
Personae|Ezra Pound
But perhaps the best service the pasture did us was as a theatre for the dramatization of the bourgeoning social instinct.
A Woman of Genius|Mary Austin

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