Main Entry:

³bloom

Function:

verb

Date:

13th century

intransitive verb

1 a: to produce or yield flowers b: to support abundant plant life <make the desert bloom>2 a (1): to mature into achievement of one's potential (2): to flourish in youthful beauty, freshness, or excellence b: to shine out : glow3: to appear or occur unexpectedly or in remarkable quantity or degree4: to become densely populated with microorganisms and especially plankton —used of bodies of watertransitive verb1obsolete : to cause to bloom2: to give bloom to