bloom
/blum/ verb C1- To cause to blossom; to make flourish.
- To bestow a bloom upon; to make blooming or radiant.
- Of a plant, to produce blooms; to open its blooms.
- To spread; to slowly expand like a field of flowers that blossom in fits and spurts. · Shadows bloomed over the yard.· Anger bloomed up from his throat.
- Of a person, business, etc, to flourish; to be in a state of healthful, growing youth and vigour; to show beauty and freshness.
- To bring out the flavor of a spice by cooking it in oil.
- To develop a layer of bloom (white, spotty areas of cocoa butter) due to repeated warming and cooling.
- To let carbon dioxide to escape from coffee in order to improve the taste.
He/she/it blooms · Past bloomed · Past participle bloomed · -ing form blooming
Verb forms
- Base form
- bloom
- He/she/it
- blooms
- Past
- bloomed
- Past participle
- bloomed
- -ing form
- blooming
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On the other side of the house, to match with the library, was the conservatory, ornamented with rare flowers, that bloomed in china jars; and in the midst of the greenhouse, marvellous alike to sight and smell, was a billiard-table which looked as if it had been abandoned during the past hour by players who had left the balls on the cloth.
Oh, there are a lot more cherry-trees all in bloom!
MacDonald made an occasional note; while Holmes sat absorbed, with the expression of surprised and reverent admiration with which the botanist surveys the rare and precious bloom.
In summer bloom were coming out,
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