Dictionary Entry

blooming

Part of SpeechverbPronunciation/ˈbluː.mɪŋ/Used In Literature ↓

To cause to blossom; to make flourish.

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Common Phrases

. bloomingflowers bloomingperiod bloomingseason bloomingplants bloomingblooming flowers

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Poetry examples for “blooming”

Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.

To Number Five direct your doves,
There spread round Murray all your blooming loves
Noble and young, who strikes the heart

2 Mild Arcadians, ever blooming,
Nightly nodding o'er your flocks,

If modest youth, with cool reflection crown'd,
And every opening virtue blooming round,
Could save a parent's justest pride from fate,

Near to this gloomy cloister's gates
There dwelt the blooming vii^in Thwaites,
Fair beyond measure, and an heir.

Near to this gloomy cloister's gates
There dwelt the blooming virgin Thwailes,
Fair beyond meaeure, and an heir

*' When Fanny blooming fair, first caught my ravishM sight.
Struck with her air and shape, I felt a strange delight.**

As with the flower;
Blooming on its own tree
For butterfly and bee

We bloom among the blooming flowers,
We sing among the singing birds;

Most glad, most full, made strong with wines,
Blooming as peaches pearled with dew,
Their golden windy hair afloat,

Lightly among the islands of the deep;
Islands of lofty palm trees blooming white
That lend their perfume to the tropic sea,