Verb (used without object) : The town burgeoned into a city. He burgeoned into a fine actor.    From Dictionary.com. 

Beyond this function, the future of capitalism is threaten by bourgeon power of an assertive and interventionist government.    From Wordnik.com.  [Emerging economies must reject handouts and bailouts capitalism] Reference

There is a touch of humanity in it, and always some germ of sympathy will bourgeon and bloom around the once populous abodes of men, whether they were tenanted by the pure or by the impure.    From Wordnik.com.  [Acadia or, A Month with the Blue Noses] Reference

Statistics bourgeon into prophecies under his pen: he does not disdain their significance, but rather aids their influence with all the power which his spasmodic style has given in drawing our grotesque-loving public to him.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 1, January 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference

Shine out on my soul, till it bourgeon and blossom.    From Wordnik.com.  [The World's Best Poetry, Volume 3 Sorrow and Consolation] Reference

Shall bourgeon with fresh leaves, or spread a shadowing bough.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Aeneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor] Reference

Their problems began to bourgeon immediately after they left New.    From Wordnik.com.  [We Can't Have Everything] Reference

Indianapolis recompense number one J. patrick rooney, 80, who laid off under one's ground for the bourgeon befit medical savings chronology, died monday.    From Wordnik.com.  [xml's Blinklist.com] Reference

Pember Street, E., is never very cheerful in appearance, not even in mid-spring, when the dingy lilacs in the forecourts of those grimy houses bourgeon and blossom.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hurricane Island] Reference

In my uncertainty as to which end would bourgeon into a head, and from which would be evolved the tail, I left both ends open that IT might be able to breathe when breath came.    From Wordnik.com.  [When Grandmamma Was New The Story of a Virginia Childhood] Reference

Draw nearer, Sun of Righteousness, and make the trees bourgeon, and the flowers blossom, and the voices grow mellow and glad, so that all shall join in praising Thee, and find thereby that harmony is better than unison.    From Wordnik.com.  [Annals of a Quiet Neighbourhood] Reference

In one sense, all national poetry is original, even though it be shackled by rules of traditional prosody, and has adopted the system of rhyme devised by writers in another language, whose words seem naturally to bourgeon into assonant terminations.    From Wordnik.com.  [Japanese Literature Including Selections from Genji Monogatari and Classical Poetry and Drama of Japan] Reference

So the first who consented to the Mameluke's proposal was the sire whose desire was naught save to sit beside her; then the rest also agreed to pass the day reposing in that place, for that it was a pleasant mead and a spacious, garnished with green grass and bright with bourgeon and blossom.    From Wordnik.com.  [Arabian nights. English] Reference

It is all fertile now, the richest plain, and even then, corn and wine must have been in full bourgeon, the great fresh greenness of the big leaves coming out upon such low stumps of vine as were left in the soil; but the devastated country was in those days covered with a wild growth like the/macchia/of Italian wilds, which half hid the movements of the expedition.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jeanne d'Arc]

"Never in my wildness dream did I think this little school would bourgeon so quickly!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Denver Newspaper Agency YourHub.com Stories] Reference

To bourgeon all her flowers of hope.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 58, August, 1862] Reference

Leave her space to bourgeon out of all.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Education of American Girls] Reference

Gayly to bourgeon, and broadly to grow.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7] Reference

Gaily to bourgeon, and broadly to grow.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Modern Scottish Minstrel , Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century] Reference

The trees bourgeon (pronounced bur'jun).    From Wordnik.com.  [The Standard Speller; Containing Exercises for Oral Spelling; also, Sentences for Silent Spelling by Writing from Dictation. In Which the Representative Words and the Anomalous Words of the English Language are so Classified as to Indicate Their Pronunciation, and to be Fixed in the Memory by Association.] Reference

  Gayly to bourgeon and broadly to grow.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lady of the Lake] Reference

Where branches bourgeon from a kindred sap.    From Wordnik.com.  [Old Spookses' Pass, Malcolm's Katie, and other poems] Reference

That one might bourgeon where another fell!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The works of John Dryden, $c now first collected in eighteen volumes. $p Volume 07] Reference

And bourgeon thence until the granite splits.    From Wordnik.com.  [Old Spookses' Pass, Malcolm's Katie, and other poems] Reference

In the blossoms that bourgeon without a care.    From Wordnik.com.  [War Poetry of the South] Reference

Of hasting prime did make them bourgeon wide.    From Wordnik.com.  [Leaves of Life For Daily Inspiration] Reference

Who feels life’s impulse bourgeon into light.    From Wordnik.com.  [0 1677. To a Wild Rose Found in October by Ednah Proctor (Clarke) Hayes. Stedman, Edmund Clarence, ed. 1900. An American Anthology, 1787-1900] Reference

Made free to bourgeon in its flower and vine.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poems: Descriptive, Dramatic, Legendary and Contemplative, by William Gilmore Simms, Esq. In Two Volumes: Vol. II. I. Southern Passages and Pictures; II. Historical and Dramatic Sketches; III. Scripture Legends; IV. Francesca Da Rimini] Reference

Un bourgeon étoilé tremblait à chaque branche.    From Wordnik.com.  [Le Convoi d'une pauvre Fille] Reference

76: When first on trees bourgeon the blossoms soft;” and Tennyson, In Memoriam, 115.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lady of the Lake] Reference

With us, however, where it has become a practical question touching domestic, social, and professional interests, its complications multiply, and it is exceedingly difficult for the most honest and unselfish occupants of place or privilege, to look at it without touching, in some of its intricacies, the question, "Does not space for her to bourgeon," imply restricting me and mine?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Education of American Girls] Reference