Pronunciations (2)
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/əˈbluːm/
Pronunciation notes
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əˈbluːm
Pronunciation notes
- US
Adverb
In or into bloom; in a blooming state; having flower blooms unfolding.
Usage- not-comparable
- postpositional
Adjective
Blooming; covered in flowers.
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[…] on summer nights when the tulips were abloom and the bees buzzing […]
[Krazy Kat:] How can you tell spring is here, Offissa Pupp? / [Officer Pupp:] By the flower abloom in yon pot.
Having something growing or grown.
Usage- Figurative
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For Santa Claus comes / With reindeer and sleigh / To fill up the stockings on glad Christmas Day. / And there in the library / Stands a great tree / With gifts all abloom, most lovely to see!
Who does not feel the passage of divine dreams over his troubled life when the infinite meadows of heaven are suddenly abloom with light?
He was abloom with heat and anxiety. The sweat underneath his arms had turned into an oily slick.
Thriving in health, beauty, and vigor; exhibiting youth-like beauty.
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The Hollywood concept of clean-shaven, square-jawed young men and fragrant young ladies with cheeks abloom does not seem to square with the facts.
When they returned, Jade's cheeks were abloom, her eyes alight with anticipation.
Adjective
when the bud, or buds, on a plant are bursting into flower
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The hawthorn tree was abloom in late spring.