Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

spring into action

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.73 in modern English

Syllables: spring in-to ac-tion
IPA

21

Scrabble Score

16

Letters

3

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To begin doing something or become active suddenly and very quickly.

Example Sentences

"At once the two henchmen sprang into action. Fingers grabbed Frank by looping his arms under the boy’s. He scooped him off the floor. “Get off me!” screamed the boy as he struggled to get away."
"“Springing into action is not the easy choice,” chef and humanitarian José Andrés, a two-time TIME100 honoree, writes in his tribute to Prince Harry and Meghan, The Duke and Duchess of Sussex."

Inflected Forms

springs into action (present, singular) springing into action (participle, present) sprang into action (past) sprung into action (participle, past)

Questions

What does spring into action mean?: To begin doing something or become active suddenly and very quickly.

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