| Main Entry: | sprout |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | develop |
Synonyms: |
bud, burgeon, germinate, grow, push, shoot, shoot up, spring, take root, vegetate |
Antonyms: |
die, shrink, shrivel |
| Main Entry: | ascend |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | go up |
Synonyms: |
arise, climb, escalate, float, fly, lift off, mount, move up, rise, scale, soar, sprout, take off, tower |
Antonyms: |
decline, descend, go down, lower |
| Main Entry: | begin |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | come into being; become functional |
Synonyms: |
appear, arise, be born, bud, come forth, come into existence, come out, commence, crop up, dawn, derive from, emanate, emerge, enter, germinate, get going, get show on road, get under way, grow out of, happen, issue forth, kick off, make tick, occur, originate, proceed from, result from, rise, sail, send off, set, spring, sprout, start, stem from, take off |
Antonyms: |
die, end |
| Main Entry: | bloom |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | flower; flourish |
Synonyms: |
be in flower, bear fruit, blossom, blow, bud, burgeon, burst, develop, effloresce, fare well, fructify, germinate, grow, open, prosper, sprout, succeed, tassel out, thrive, wax |
Antonyms: |
shrink, shrivel, wither |
| Main Entry: | boy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | young man |
Synonyms: |
buck, cadet, chap, child, dude*, fellow, gamin, guy, half-pint, junior, lad, little guy, little shaver, master, punk*, puppy, runt, schoolboy, shaver, small fry, sonny, sprout*, squirt, stripling, tadpole, whippersnapper, youngster, youth |
Antonyms: |
girl |
| Main Entry: | child |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | very young person |
Synonyms: |
adolescent, anklebiter, babe, baby, bairn, bambino, brat, cherub, chick, cub, descendant, dickens, imp, infant, innocent, issue, juvenile, kid, kiddie, lamb, little angel, little darling, little doll, little one, minor, mite, moppet, neonate, nestling, newborn, nipper, nursling, offspring, preteen, progeny, pubescent, shaver, small fry, sprout, squirt, stripling, suckling, tadpole, teen, teenager, teenybopper, toddler, tot, tyke, urchin, whippersnapper, young one, youngster, youth |
Antonyms: |
adult |
| Main Entry: | germ |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | beginning |
Synonyms: |
bud, cause, egg, embryo, inception, nucleus, origin, ovule, ovum, root, rudiment, seed, source, spark, spore, sprig, sprout |
| Main Entry: | germinate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | grow |
Synonyms: |
bud, develop, generate, live, originate, pullulate, shoot, sprout, swell, vegetate |
Antonyms: |
halt, slow, stop, thwart |
| Main Entry: | graft |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | transplant |
Synonyms: |
bud*, hybridization, implant, jointure, scion, shoot, slip, splice, sprout, union |
| Notes: | a graft is one thing attached to another by insertion or implantation so it becomes part of it; a splice is the joining of two things end-to-end to make a new whole |
| Main Entry: | grow |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | become larger, evolve |
Synonyms: |
abound, advance, age, amplify, arise, augment, become, branch out, breed, build, burgeon, burst forth, come, come to be, cultivate, develop, dilate, enlarge, expand, extend, fill out, flourish, gain, germinate, get bigger, get taller, heighten, increase, issue, luxuriate, maturate, mature, mount, multiply, originate, pop up, produce, propagate, pullulate, raise, ripen, rise, shoot*, spread, spring up, sprout, stem, stretch, swell, thicken, thrive, turn, vegetate, wax, widen |
Antonyms: |
decline, decrease, diminish, halt, lessen, reduce, stop, stunt |