Definitions for blooms

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Spelling: [bloom]

IPA: /blum/

Blooms is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 86 anagrams from letters in blooms (blmoos).

Definitions for blooms

noun

1. the flower of a plant.
2. flowers collectively:
3. state of having the buds opened:
4. a flourishing, healthy condition; the time or period of greatest beauty, artistry, etc.:
5. a glow or flush on the cheek indicative of youth and health:
6. the glossy, healthy appearance of the coat of an animal.
7. a moist, lustrous appearance indicating freshness in fish.
8. redness or a fresh appearance on the surface of meat.
9. Botany. a whitish powdery deposit or coating, as on the surface of certain fruits and leaves:
10. any similar surface coating or appearance:
11. any of certain minerals occurring as powdery coatings on rocks or other minerals.
12. Also called chill. a clouded or dull area on a varnished or lacquered surface.
13. Also called algal bloom, water bloom. the sudden development of conspicuous masses of organisms, as algae, on the surface of a body of water.
14. Television. image spread produced by excessive exposure of highlights in a television image.
15. a piece of steel, square or slightly oblong in section, reduced from an ingot to dimensions suitable for further rolling.
16. a large lump of iron and slag, of pasty consistency when hot, produced in a puddling furnace or bloomery and hammered into wrought iron.

Idioms

1. take the bloom off, to remove the enjoyment or ultimate satisfaction from; dampen the enthusiasm over:
2. the bloom is off (the rose), the excitement, enjoyment, interest, etc., has ended or been dampened.

verb (used with object)

1. to cause to yield blossoms.
2. to make bloom or cause to flourish:
3. to invest with luster or beauty:
4. to cause a cloudy area on (something shiny); dampen; chill:
5. Optics. to coat (a lens) with an antireflection material.
6. to make (an ingot) into a bloom.

verb (used without object)

1. to produce or yield blossoms.
2. to flourish or thrive:
3. to be in or achieve a state of healthful beauty and vigor:
4. to glow with warmth or with a warm color.

Origin of blooms

1150-1200; (noun) Middle English blom, blome Old Norse blōm, blōmi; cognate with Gothic blōma lily, German Blume flower; akin to blow³

Examples for blooms

Elise bloomed in this congenial atmosphere and did not look like the same girl.

Love has bloomed amid an otherwise painful period, marred by outrages large and small.

Not a flower that bloomed the same: the roses differed in the fashion of their wooing.

These once bloomed in the island gardens of the blue Aegean.

She had bloomed like a royal rose in the days of serene rest at Soledad.

And on the edges of evangelicalism, where alertness to “New Age” influence runs high, concern has bloomed into outrage.

And the way Harry bloomed upon this background of dubious antiquity!

He loved them, and they responded to his love and bloomed and bore for him.

And so, with a surprising suddenness, it has recently bloomed up among Republicans and Democrats alike.

Is this the same Viola who bloomed fairer than their own Idalia under the skies of Greece?