bloom
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bluːm/
homophone: Bloom
rhymes: -uːm
Forms: form: blooms
form: blooming
form: bloomed
form: bloomed
Etymology: From Middle English bloom (“a blossom”).
Senses: examples: text: Charitable affection bloomed them.
ref: 1594–1597, Richard Hooker, edited by J[ohn] S[penser], Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie, […], London: […] Will[iam] Stansby [for Matthew Lownes], published 1611, →OCLC, (please specify the page):
glosses: To cause to blossom; to make flourish.
examples: text: The Tree of Life[…]blooming Ambrosial Fruit Of vegetable Gold.
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book IV”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
text: Where are the songs of Spring? Ay, where are they? / Think not of them, thou hast thy music too,— / While barred clouds bloom the soft-dying day, / And touch the stubble-plains with rosy hue; [...]
ref: 1819 September 19, John Keats, “To Autumn”, in Lamia, Isabella, the Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems, London: […] [Thomas Davison] for Taylor and Hessey, […], published 1820, →OCLC, stanza 3, page 138:
glosses: To bestow a bloom upon; to make blooming or radiant.
examples: text: A flower which once / In Paradise, fast by the tree of life, / Began to bloom.
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book I”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
glosses: Of a plant, to produce blooms; to open its blooms.
examples: text: Shadows bloomed over the yard.
text: Anger bloomed up from his throat.
glosses: To spread; to slowly expand like a field of flowers that blossom in fits and spurts.
examples: text: Nurse Cramer had a cute nose and a radiant, blooming complexion dotted with fetching sprays of adorable freckles that Yossarian detested.
ref: 1961 November 10, Joseph Heller, “The Soldier in White”, in Catch-22 […], New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, →OCLC, page 171:
text: The attacking three have also been allowed to bloom. Liberated from deep defensive duties Eden Hazard has become more expressive, more obviously, flashily complete.
ref: 2017 May 13, Barney Ronay, “Antonio Conte’s brilliance has turned Chelsea’s pop-up team into champions”, in the Guardian:
text: A better country blooms to view, / Beneath a brighter sky.
ref: a. 1788, John Logan, A Tale:
glosses: Of a person, business, etc, to flourish; to be in a state of healthful, growing youth and vigour; to show beauty and freshness.
topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: To bring out the flavor of a spice by cooking it in oil.
topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: To develop a layer of bloom (white, spotty areas of cocoa butter) due to repeated warming and cooling.
raw_tags: of chocolate
topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: To let carbon dioxide to escape from coffee in order to improve the taste.
topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
synonyms: word: proof
topics: baking
cooking
food
lifestyle
word: rehydrate
topics: brewing
beverages
manufacturing
business
food
lifestyle
glosses: To hydrate ingredients (such as gelatin or yeast) before using them.
Synonyms: sense: produce blooms
word: blossom
sense: produce blooms
word: flower
sense: flourish
word: blossom
sense: flourish
word: flourish
sense: flourish
word: thrive
Derived terms: bloomer
late bloomer
let a thousand flowers bloom
night-blooming cereus
night-blooming jasmine
outbloom
overbloom
rebloom
unbloomed