1. sprung - Adjective
2. sprung - Verb
Derived from spring
of Spring
imp. & p. p. of Spring.
Said of a spar that has been cracked or strained.
Source: Webster's dictionaryHere dead we lie because we did not choose To live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose; But young men think it is, and we were young. A. E. Housman
Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprung the intact reality of the 20th century. J. G. Ballard
I think America concedes that true American music has sprung from the Negro. W. C. Handy
Ambition first sprung from your bless'd abodes; The glorious fault of angels and of gods. Alexander Pope
Religious ideas have sprung from the same need as all the other achievements of culture from the necessity for defending itself against the crushing supremacy of nature. Sigmund Freud
He has sprung up like a mushroom. Latin Proverb