"spring to life" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: En-au-spring to life.ogg Forms: springs to life [present, singular, third-person], springing to life [participle, present], sprang to life [past], sprung to life [past], sprung to life [participle, past]
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  1. (idiomatic) To start to exist. Tags: idiomatic Translations (start to exist): jaio (Basque), появявам се (pojavjavam se) (Bulgarian), springe (Danish), ontspringen (Dutch), ontspruiten (Dutch), ontstaan (Dutch), nousta (Finnish), syntyä (Finnish), naître (French), entspringen (German), ξεπροβάλλω (xeprovállo) (Greek), ξεφυτρώνω (xefytróno) (Greek), nascere (Italian), generarsi (Italian), formarsi (Italian), 跳ね上がる (hane-agaru) (alt: はねあがる) (Japanese), 跳ねる (haneru) (alt: はねる) (Japanese), entsprangen (Luxembourgish), се појавува (se pojavuva) (Macedonian), tfaċċa (Maltese), nascer (Portuguese), возника́ть (voznikátʹ) (Russian), брать нача́ло (bratʹ načálo) (Russian), nacer (Spanish), ortaya çıkıvermek (Turkish), belirivermek (Turkish)
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          "roman": "xeprovállo",
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          "sense": "start to exist",
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          "sense": "start to exist",
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          "sense": "start to exist",
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