blooming

  1. Verb.  (present participle of, bloom) .
  2. Adjective.  Opening in blossoms; flowering.
  3. Adjective.  Thriving in health, beauty, and vigor, vigour; indicating the freshness and beauties of youth or health.
  4. Adjective.  (British, euphemistic) bloody (''in its vulgar senses'').
  5. Adverb.  (euphemistic) Bloody; bleeding; extremely.
  6. Noun.  The act by which something blooms.
  7. Noun.  (metallurgy) The process of making blooms from the ore or from cast iron.

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