flower
/ˈflaʊ̯.ɚ/ verb C2- To put forth blooms. · This plant flowers in June.
- To decorate with pictures of flowers.
- To reach a state of full development or achievement.
- To come off as flowers by sublimation.
He/she/it flowers · Past flowered · Past participle flowered · -ing form flowering
Verb forms
- Base form
- flower
- He/she/it
- flowers
- Past
- flowered
- Past participle
- flowered
- -ing form
- flowering
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Eugénie looked at Danglars, much surprised that one flower of her crown of pride, with which she had so superbly decked herself, should be disputed.
Then she went to work nibbling at the mushroom (she had kept a piece of it in her pocket) till she was about a foot high: then she walked down the little passage: and _then_—she found herself at last in the beautiful garden, among the bright flower-beds and the cool fountains.
“You shan’t be beheaded!” said Alice, and she put them into a large flower-pot that stood near.
“Go thou down quickly to the men’s huts in the valley, and take some of the Red Flower which they grow there, so that when the time comes thou mayest have even a stronger friend than I or Baloo or those of the Pack that love thee.
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