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Abloom

Abloom \A*bloom"\, adv. [Pref. a- + bloom.] In or into bloom; in a blooming state.
--Masson.

Wiktionary
abloom

a. 1 blooming; covered in flowers. (Mid 19th century.) 2 (context figuratively English) Having something growing or grown. 3 Thriving in health, beauty, and vigor; exhibiting youth-like beauty. adv. (context postpositive English) In or into bloom; in a blooming state; having flower blooms unfolding. (Mid 19th century.)(R:SOED5: page=5)

WordNet
abloom

adj. bursting into flower; "flowering spring trees" [syn: efflorescent, flowering]

Usage examples of "abloom".

The terrace next to the side porch was already abloom with freshly planted flowers.

Val died, his gardens were abloom with chrysanthemums, the air golden, the oaks in his yard sculpted against a hard blue sky.

She was breathing too fast, and her underarms and her face were abloom with heat.

Charlotte Simmons gave off waves and waves of shiftlessness, incompetence, irresponsibility, sloth, flabby character, and the noxious funk of flesh abloom with heat, sweat, fear, and adrenaline.

The beautifully rolled lawns and freshly painted club stand were sprinkled with spring dresses and abloom with sunshades, and coaches and other vehicles without number enclosed the farther side of the field.

Ottomans and center of the silk trade, its quiet, declining streets abloom with minarets and cypress trees.

Give me the Saltings of Essex with the east winds blowing over them, and the primroses abloom upon the bank, and the lanes fetlock deep in mud, and for your share you may take all the scented gardens of Sinan and the cups and jewels of his ladies, with the fightings and adventures of the golden East thrown in.

Her thoughts are like the lotus Abloom by sacred streams Beneath the temple arches Where Quiet sits and dreams.

But your far song, my faint one, what are they, And what their dance and faery thoughts and ours, Or night abloom with splendid stars and pale?

Kingsley looked out over the flower beds that, still abloom in spite of the lateness of the season, lay before Aylesberg Hall.

There he himself stood in a dark blue loincloth with a white pinstripe, his chest abloom with curly red hair and tasteful pseudo-tattoos, his fingers heavy with rings, his ankles clanking with bracelets.

Brenna broke free of the forest and entered a meadow abloom with heather.

The foothills loomed up here, too -- more lava formations, huge rocks balanced on top of each other and strewn along slopes that also bore catclaw, cholla, organ-pipe cactus abloom with pink and white and lavender flowers.

The beautifully rolled lawns and freshly painted club stand were sprinkled with spring dresses and abloom with sunshades, and coaches and other vehicles without number enclosed the farther side of the field.

Our yard was abloom with hibiscus and blue and pink hydrangeas and the neighbors came on horseback to the fais-dodo under our oaks.