[
UK
/blˈuːmɪŋ/
]
[ US /ˈbɫumɪŋ/ ]
[ US /ˈbɫumɪŋ/ ]
NOUN
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the organic process of bearing flowers
you will stop all bloom if you let the flowers go to seed
ADJECTIVE
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informal intensifiers
what a bally (or blinking) nuisance
you flaming idiot
a crashing bore
a bloody fool
How To Use blooming In A Sentence
- Human relations do not always rely on meeting each other in person every day. When we talk about relationships between people on either side of the border, just a few thousand miles can’t keep love from growing and blooming into a beautiful bonding. Gulzar
- The sweet peas just now started blooming, that is so late, even though they were planted mid February. Wordless June Blooms « Fairegarden
- Their blossoms encompass nearly the entire color spectrum and blooming times range from early spring to fall, depending on the variety.
- For early blooming shrubs such as forsythia and viburnum, prune them as soon as blooms have passed.
- The autumn birds were singing; the autumn flowers were blooming; yellow golden rod and scarlet sumach glowed in the corners of the fences; locusts chirped in treetops; grasshoppers stridulated in the meadows, one or two of them making more noise than a whole drove of cattle lying peacefully chewing their cud beneath an umbrageous elm and lifting up their great, tranquil, blinking eyes to the morning sun. The Redemption of David Corson
- We kept driving, past cedar thickets and a pasture studded with blooming prickly pear cactus.
- Our nepeta is blooming too, funny how fast the flowering catches up from north to south. Bee Speed « Fairegarden
- Horae (Hours), and Eunomia (Order), Dike (Justice), and blooming Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica
- Grass grew, foliage returned to trees' canopies, and blooming flowers proliferated.
- I saw it over and over again, blooming bravely in dooryard gardens despite the sizzling heat on the rough, wind-swept prairies.