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English

Verb

reddening

1. present participle of redden

Noun

reddening (plural reddenings)

1. The action or effect of the verb to redden.

   The cold weather caused some cheek reddening and some nose running.

   There was some noticeable reddening in her cheeks when she had been drinking.

Anagrams

• ingendred

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /blu?m/
• Homophone: Bloom
• Rhymes: -u?m

Etymology 1

From Middle English blome, from Old Norse blóm, from Proto-Germanic *bl?mô (“flower”). Doublet of bloom (“spongy mass of metal”); see there for more.

Noun

bloom (countable and uncountable, plural blooms)

1. A blossom; the flower of a plant; an expanded bud.
   • 1843, William H. Prescott, The History of the Conquest of Mexico

     the rich blooms and enamelled vegetation of the tropics

2. (collective) Flowers.
3. (uncountable) The opening of flowers in general; the state of blossoming or of having the flowers open.
4. (figuratively) A state or time of beauty, freshness, and vigor; an opening to higher perfection, analogous to that of buds into blossoms.

   • every successive mother had transmitted to her child a fainter bloom, a more delicate and briefer beauty.

5. Rosy colour; the flush or glow on a person's cheek.
6. The delicate, powdery coating upon certain growing or newly-gathered fruits or leaves, as on grapes, plums, etc.
   • 2010, Donna Pliner Rodnitzky, Low-Carb Smoothies

     The bloom on blueberries is the dusty powder that protects them from the Sun; it does not rinse off.

7. Anything giving an appearance of attractive freshness.
8. The clouded appearance which varnish sometimes takes upon the surface of a picture.
9. A yellowish deposit or powdery coating which appears on well-tanned leather.

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10. (mineralogy) A bright-hued variety of some minerals.

11. (cooking) A white area of cocoa butter that forms on the surface of chocolate when warmed and cooled.
12. (television) An undesirable halo effect that may occur when a very bright region is displayed next to a very dark region of the screen.

Synonyms

• (flower of a plant): blossom, flower
• (opening of flowers): blossom, flower
• (anything giving an appearance of attractive freshness): flush, glow

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English bloom (“a blossom”).

Verb

bloom (third-person singular simple present blooms, present participle blooming, simple past and past participle bloomed)

1. (transitive) To cause to blossom; to make flourish.
   • 1594, Richard Hooker, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie

     Charitable affection bloomed them.

2. (transitive) To bestow a bloom upon; to make blooming or radiant.

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3. (intransitive) Of a plant, to produce blooms; to open its blooms.
4. (intransitive, figuratively) Of a person, business, etc, to flourish; to be in a state of healthful, growing youth and vigour; to show beauty and freshness.
   • a. 1788, John Logan, A Tale

     A better country blooms to view, / Beneath a brighter sky.

5. (cooking) To bring out the flavor of a spice by cooking it in oil.

Synonyms

• (produce blooms): blossom, flower
• (flourish): blossom, flourish, thrive

Derived terms

• bloomer
• late bloomer

Translations

Etymology 3

From Middle English blome, from Old English bl?ma (“flower; lump of metal”), from Proto-Germanic *bl?mô (“flower”). Cognate with West Frisian blom, Dutch bloem, German Blume, Icelandic blóm, Danish blomme, Gothic ???????????????????? (bl?ma). Related to blow, blade, blead; also a doublet of flower, foil, and belladonna.

Noun

bloom (plural blooms)

1. The spongy mass of metal formed in a furnace by the smelting process.
   • 1957, H.R. Schubert, History of the British Iron and Steel Industry, p. 26:

     These metallic bodies gradually increasing in volume finally conglomerate into a larger mass, the bloom, which is extracted from the furnace with tongs.

Related terms

• bloomery
• blooming

Translations

Chinook Jargon

Etymology

Borrowed from English broom.

Noun

bloom

1. broom

Derived terms

• mamook bloom

Manx

Etymology

Borrowed from English bloom.

Noun

bloom m (genitive singular [please provide], plural [please provide])

1. (metallurgy) bloom

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