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Definition/Meaning

(verb)

jump, bound, or leap over something, to jauntily walk;

e.g. He had a spring in his step after hearing the good news.

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Similar Words

Actualize

Appear

Arise

Begin

Bound

Break

Canter

Capriole

Come-on

Commence

Cradle

Curvet

Dawn

Debut

Determinant

Discharge

Emancipate

Emerge

Emergence

Enfranchise

Engender

Enlarge

Font

Form

Fountain

Fountainhead

Free

Gambado

Geyser

Hop

Joyride

Jump

Kite

Leap

Liberate

Liquidate

Loose

Loosen

Manumit

Materialize

Origin

Originate

Parole

Payoff

Pounce

Quit

Refill

Release

Root

Seedbed

Shag

Source

Stand

Start

Surge

Unbind

Uncage

Unchain

Unfetter

Unmoor

Unshackle

Vault

Well

Wellspring

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Opposite Words

Afterclap

Aftereffect

Afterglow

Aftermath

Aftershock

Apprehend

Arrest

Backwash

Bind

Blowback

Bust

Cease

Child

Collar

Commit

Conclude

Conclusion

Confine

Conquer

Consequence

Corollary

Crimp

Denouement

Depart

Desist

Detain

Development

Die

Disappear

Discontinue

Dissolve

Dominate

Effect

Enchain

End

Enslave

Evaporate

Expire

Fate

Fetter

Finish

Fruit

Halt

Handcuff

Immure

Implication

Imprison

Incarcerate

Intern

Issue

Jail

Manacle

Nab

Nail

Nick

Nip

Outcome

Outgrowth

Overpower

Pacify

Perish

Pickup

Pinch

Precipitate

Product

Quit

Ramification

Rearrest

Remand

Restrain

Result

Resultant

Run-in

Seize

Sequel

Sequence

Shackle

Stop

Subdue

Subject

Subjugate

Subordinate

Terminate

Trammel

Tweak

Upshot

Vanish

Vanquish

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Related Words

Abscond

Afford

Alpha

Antecedent

Arrive

Attack

Baseline

Be

Beginning

Belch

Birth

Bleed

Bolt

Bounce

Branch

Breathe

Buck

Budget

Caper

Capriole

Causality

Causation

Cause

Cavort

Clear

Coalesce

Cohere

Commencement

Continue

Dash

Dawn

Deliver

Disburden

Disembarrass

Disencumber

Disengage

Disentangle

Disgorge

Disport

Dive

Divest

Eject

Emerge

Endure

Erupt

Escape

Exist

Expel

Extricate

Exude

Flee

Flow

Fly

Force

Fountainhead

Free

Frisk

Frolic

Fund

Gallop

Gambado

Gambol

Genesis

Germ

Head

Hurdle

Inception

Incipiency

Inventory

Jet

Jog

Jump

Kickoff

Lam

Lark

Last

Launch

Leapfrog

Live

Loose

Loosen

Lope

Morning

Occasion

Onset

Ooze

Origin

Outset

Parole

Percolate

Persist

Pitch

Plunge

Pool

Pounce

Pour

Radiate

Ransom

Ray

Reason

Redeem

Release

Relieve

Repertoire

Rescue

Reservoir

Rid

Roll

Romp

Root

Run

Runaway

Runoff

Save

Scamper

Seed

Seedbed

Seep

Shoot

Skip

Skyrocket

Source

Spew

Sport

Spout

Sprint

Spurt

Stake

Start

Startle

Stock

Strain

Stream

Subsist

Supply

Survive

Sweat

Threshold

Transude

Trip

Trot

Unburden

Unleash

Unlock

Unloose

Unloosen

Unshackle

Weep

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