burgeoning

Definitions  ·  Examples  ·  Pronunciations  ·  Etymologies  ·  Related  ·  Statistics  ·  Comments (1)  · 
Over the years, the once-burgeoning area has steadily lost retail and professional businesses.

View all »
Definitions (8)

Toggle American Heritage definitions American Heritage Dictionary (3)

  1. intransitive verb To put forth new buds, leaves, or greenery; sprout.
  2. intransitive verb To begin to grow or blossom.
  3. intransitive verb To grow or develop rapidly.

Toggle Century definitions Century Dictionary (3)

Toggle GNU Webster definitions GNU Webster's 1913 (1)

Toggle WordNet definitions WordNet (1)

Toggle elsewhere links Elsewhere on the web

View all »
Examples (48)

  • Kissing wildly, I pushed into him as far as I dared and his eyes opened wide as my burgeoning organ filled his rectum. —  XXXX
  • The birth pangs of the gaming industry were stressful enough; now many argue we're seeing the tumultuous upheaval of what some would call a burgeoning art form in its adolescence. —  IOL Technology
  • Sure, I jackhole who is not supportive, doesn't find my ever-burgeoning gunt the sexiest pocket of flesh and blubber on earth, who isn't a genius in his own right. —  bite my cookie
  • If we run out of space for our burgeoning race Most of what they do is faked anyhow, wouldn't $1,000,000 buy enough flights in the —  Slashdot: Science
  • As you lay the foundation for a burgeoning vocabulary, you will perfect your new words with plenty of exercises and gain the confidence you need to communicate well in Italian. —  AvaxHome RSS:
 

Tags

Sign up or sign in to add tags.

Stats

This word has been looked up 106 times.

On Twitter

Photos from

flickr images
 

Pronunciations
Record your own »

by Parker Smith

Charts

frequency chart

Bubble size: how much this word was used in a year

Bubble height: used more or less than expected, vs. all uses evenly distributed

You can expect to see this word a few times a month.

Recently looked up

maranatha · GnuCash · Ludhiana · day-dreaming · sodium

Recent Favorites

pygopagus · sanglant · Astacus · sweetbread · qualms

Recent Pronunciations

minty-fresh death threat · please stop sucking the monkeybread · beauregard · unicycle hockey · Ipanema