Verb (used without object) : The town burgeoned into a city. He burgeoned into a fine actor. From Dictionary.com.
When she reached up and stroked his jaw, hope burgeoned. From Wordnik.com. [In His Own Defense]
Neurological responses burgeoned and bifurcated within him. From Wordnik.com. [Corpus of a Siam Mosquito] Reference
Writing has slowed even as slogging for the Man has burgeoned. From Wordnik.com. [outfoxed Diary Entry] Reference
The conflict has burgeoned, with Zimbabwe, Angola, Namibia and. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Desire had already burgeoned within her; she needed more, soon. From Wordnik.com. [A Lady of His Own]
Stewart: That's why restaurants have burgeoned in the last 20 years. From Wordnik.com. [Richard Z. Chesnoff: Julia & Martha] Reference
It died, revelling in agony, and burgeoned again into ecstatic life. From Wordnik.com. [The Voyage of the Space Beagle]
Writing and art produced by Maori people also burgeoned in this period. From Wordnik.com. [1961] Reference
This was a love affair that burgeoned late in both these people's lives. From Wordnik.com. [Tina Brown's Must-Reads: The Lives Of Others] Reference
A close intelligence-sharing relationship between the governments has burgeoned. From Wordnik.com. [Ronan Farrow: Ethiopia's War on its Own] Reference
The children were not aware of the sudden change of course as the idea burgeoned. From Wordnik.com. [The Nitrogen Fix]
Now it has burgeoned to ten races run over two days, and they all have big purses. From Wordnik.com. [Jane Smiley: Match Race] Reference
All this while profits have burgeoned and executive salaries are through the roof. From Wordnik.com. [Tim Saltonstall: Greed Gone Wild: Our Health Insurance Industry Is Sick and Wrong] Reference
A respected traditional healer we visited told us that her clientele has burgeoned. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 18, 2008] Reference
The contract manufacturer, also known as Foxconn, burgeoned with business from Apple. From Wordnik.com. [Asia's Fab 50] Reference
A rich new growth, unusual so late in the season, burgeoned across the open landscape. From Wordnik.com. [The Plains of Passage]
The shelf burgeoned with volumes on loan from the academy: Kerrick was an avid reader. From Wordnik.com. [Time Streams]
During these years, the ranks of environmental professionals and bureaucrats burgeoned. From Wordnik.com. [Aldo Leopold's Legacy] Reference
But the scientific rescue teams stepped in and gradually the kestrel population burgeoned. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Bilateral relations between South Africa and India have burgeoned during the past four years. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
A lance of golden power burgeoned from his fists, and the point parted bone as it stabbed relentlessly. From Wordnik.com. [Odyssey]
As the capabilities of videogame hardware have burgeoned, the bar for realism in games has been raised. From Wordnik.com. [Iraq, the Videogame] Reference
Today it is one of at least 10 schools which have burgeoned in the disadvantaged Orange Farm community. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
But while the volume of stakes being shopped around has burgeoned, sellers have had a hard time finding buyers. From Wordnik.com. [Whitehall Cash Call Adds Insult to Losses] Reference
Meanwhile, in Chicago, a hastily organized pro-immigrant rally burgeoned into a street demonstration of 100,000 or more. From Wordnik.com. [Marc Cooper: The Great Immigration Debate: Getting Beyond Denial] Reference
A rich field of statistical science burgeoned on topics such as selection bias, cooperation bias, weighting, smoothing, etc. From Wordnik.com. [InteracTiVoty - Last Gasp of Relevance for Age/Gender Demos - Todd Juenger - MediaBizBlogger] Reference
It existed much earlier, but by the 17th and 18th centuries burgeoned with trade to the Americas, especially the US colonies. From Wordnik.com. [Doug Dowd's "At the Cliff's Edge" - Part I] Reference
The sky was cloudless, the tall trees had burgeoned, a few green shoots were already brightening their myriad of brown twigs. From Wordnik.com. [A Daughter of Eve] Reference
For instance, I read just this week a figure that, since 2002, the profits of health insurers burgeoned more than 400 percent. From Wordnik.com. [Ted Kennedy's Ideal: Health Care Linked to Cost Containment] Reference
As days grew longer with astonishing speed when spring burgeoned here, so the hours of light shrank quickly as autumn approached. From Wordnik.com. [Bridge of the Separator]
Saitex said trade relations between the two countries had burgeoned over the past five years, overwhelmingly in Nigeria's favour. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
As a percent of our national income, our cumulative debt burgeoned from a stable level of around 150% of GDP to 350% and counting. From Wordnik.com. [David Paul: Deleveraging Society] Reference
After she had seized upon smooth muscle as an area of research, it burgeoned world-wide over a growth phase of about twenty years. From Wordnik.com. [Edith B��lbring.] Reference
That was the No. 1 best - seller that faded after awhile and then suddenly the Ashley Smith story burgeoned him back into the headlines. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 22, 2005] Reference
And if the public is turning away from consumerism, it may also be shunning the screen-based culture that burgeoned over the past decade. From Wordnik.com. [Alive and Well] Reference
While the Supreme Court has significantly reduced the number of cases that it considers each year, Federal Court caseloads have burgeoned. From Wordnik.com. [Rabbi David Saperstein: Our Rights in Peril: The Future of the Courts] Reference
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