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Verb: burgeon  bur-jun
  1. Grow and flourish
    "The burgeoning administration"; "The burgeoning population"
     
  2. [archaic] Produce buds, branches, or germinate
    "the potatoes burgeoned forth";
    - shoot, spud [informal], germinate, pullulate, bourgeon [archaic], burgeon forth [archaic], sprout

Derived forms: burgeoned, burgeoning, burgeons

Type of: grow

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bureaucratic procedure
bureaucratically
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bureaucratism
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burgeon
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Burger
burger
Burgess
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burgh
burgher
burglar
burglar alarm
burglarious