burgeon
verb (used without object)
to grow or develop quickly; flourish.
burgeons
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present tense formof burgeon (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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As anti-royalist sentiment burgeons, Bologne stages a benefit concert for the insurrection and faces a personal crisis.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 19, 2023
Lithium ion batteries are expected to remain the dominant battery chemistry as the industry burgeons, especially in transportation.
From Reuters ● Aug. 6, 2021
The music burgeons and recedes, with different instrumental groups sometimes at odds with each other, sometimes in sync.
From New York Times ● Nov. 26, 2020
Its emphasis falls on the folly of killing the thing that you wish would endure; terror burgeons in the gap between what was desired and what was achieved.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 21, 2019
Madame Manec’s energy, Marie-Laure is learning, is extraordinary; she burgeons, shoots off stalks, wakes early, works late, concocts bisques without a drop of cream, loaves with less than a cup of flour.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
