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US
/ˌfʊɫˈbɫoʊn/
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ADJECTIVE
-
fully ripe; at the height of bloom
a full-blown rose -
having or displaying all the characteristics necessary for completeness
a full-blown financial crisis
How To Use full-blown In A Sentence
- The border dispute turned into a full-blown crisis.
- But for many smaller outfits, the slowdown has become a full-blown credit crunch.
- The classic presentation of poststreptococcal glomerulonephritis is a full-blown nephritic syndrome with oliguric acute renal failure.
- Seeing the disaster zone in the cold light of day can be enough to speed a headache to a full-blown hangover.
- Friday night's gusty winds blew on through Saturday and matured into a full-blown storm as Britain slept last night - or rather, as Britain tried to sleep.
- Fortunately, full-blown flu epidemics are relatively rare.
- By the early 1990s, the above-mentioned "structural" changes were building up to a very strong pressure toward a full-blown financial liberalization.
- Nor do new cognitive skills emerge full-blown. The Developing Child (7th edn.)
- We were able to step up the awards ceremony from last year's weenie roast to a full-blown rock'n'roll New York City rager.
- The next stage, she says, is an attitude of helplessness about work, the full-blown Sisyphus complex.