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blooming

Pronunciation: /ˈbluː.mɪŋ/

The English word “blooming” has 6 meanings listed here.

adjective

  1. Opening in blossoms; flowering.
  2. Thriving in health, beauty, and vigor, vigour; indicating the freshness and beauties of youth or health.
  3. A euphemism for the intensifier bloody.

noun

  1. The act by which something blooms.
  2. The process of making blooms from the ore or from cast iron.
  3. A phenomenon where excessive light causes bright patches in a picture.

Etymology

By surface analysis, bloom + -ing.

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