springing up
Popping into existence
Springing up describes sudden emergence or rapid appearance.
Plants spring up after rain.
New businesses spring up in developing neighborhoods.
Rumors spring up overnight.
The phrase emphasizes quickness and often unexpectedness—things that spring up weren't there moments before: Coffee shops have been springing up all over the city.
- welling upGradually rising from within
- rising upMoving to higher position
- germinatingStarting to grow
- taking rootBecoming firmly established
- arrivalAct of reaching destination
sprouting · popping up · cropping up · coming up · erupting · bursting forth · leaping · uprising · originating · budding · blooming · generating · bounding · surging · mushrooming · flourishing · darting · initiating
- body movementsflexion, bend, twist, standing, extension
- happeningshappenings, happening, event, occurrence, events
- emergenceemergence, appearing, surfacing, self-organization, arising
springing updying out
Becoming extinct gradually
disappearing · vanishing · fading away · withering away · dying off
springing upcollapsing
Falling inward suddenly
falling down · sinking · crumbling · toppling · caving in
spring, springs, sprung, springy, springer, springiness, springboard, springtime, offspring