abloom

[ uh-bloom ]
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adverb, adjective
  1. in bloom; blossoming; flowering.

Origin of abloom

1
First recorded in 1850–55; a-1 + bloom1

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How to use abloom in a sentence

  • Then, if the owner wishes to see them continually abloom, bulbs must be planted, to give the early spring flowers.

    A Woman's Hardy Garden | Helena Rutherfurd Ely
  • Lilacs were abloom in every garden, and buttercups made the fields look yellow.

  • It was in the month of May and the bushes of the old palace yard were abloom in white and red.

    Birdseye Views of Far Lands | James T. Nichols
  • Here is one of these flowers; a century plant it is, watered with precious blood, and abloom in sweet solitude.

    Sketches of the Covenanters | J. C. McFeeters
  • His last testimony abounds with lovely passages of Scripture, beautiful and fragrant as a bush abloom with roses.

    Sketches of the Covenanters | J. C. McFeeters

British Dictionary definitions for abloom

abloom

/ (əˈbluːm) /


adjective
  1. (postpositive) in flower; blooming

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