Making and creating
Synonyms for burgeon
Synonyms for burgeon: flourish and swell. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 2 synonyms for burgeon
Interchangeable with burgeon in this sense
Audited under burgeon's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one burgeon carries in that sense.
- flourishverb, in the sense "to grow or develop rapidly"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name burgeon as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- swellswell is a verb in the sense "to increase noticeably in size or number"
The first group is filed under burgeon's own sense. The second reaches burgeon from the partner word's entry, so the sense quoted beside it is that word's.
to grow or develop rapidly
New neighborhoods burgeon whenever a subway line opens nearby.
The true synonym
flourish
Same sentence, swapped: New neighborhoods flourish whenever a subway line opens nearby.
Close but different
Wrong tiles, chosen to be tempting rather than absurd. The reason line above takes the nearest one apart; the rest fail the same sentence for their own reasons.
- shrink
- stagnate
- erode
Where burgeon turns up in the game
burgeon is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 2, Treeline. It is never used as a wrong tile elsewhere in the bank, so every board it appears on is a board it can win.
Play burgeon
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so burgeon reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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The wrong tile gets explained too
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. burgeon carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.