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blooming

verb
/ˈbluː.mɪŋ/UK

Etymology

By surface analysis, bloom + -ing.

Definitions

  1. present participle and gerund of bloom

  2. Opening in blossoms

    Opening in blossoms; flowering.

  3. Thriving in health, beauty, and vigor, vigour

    Thriving in health, beauty, and vigor, vigour; indicating the freshness and beauties of youth or health.

  4. ›+ 4 more definitions

    1. A euphemism for the intensifier bloody.

      • “How'd you like to be shoved in a blooming log?'

    2. The act by which something blooms.

      • Such bloomings, Dr. McLaren continued, would require a critical audience, “so that they can be subject to scientific and ethical review, freely available for research and one day, perhaps, for treating diseases.”

    3. The process of making blooms from the ore or from cast iron.

    4. A phenomenon where excessive light causes bright patches in a picture.

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Derived

bloomingly, bloomingness, everblooming, nonblooming, preblooming, unblooming, blooming heck, blooming hell, blooming onion, late-blooming

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at blooming. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at blooming. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

5 hops · closes at blooming

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA