0 past simple and past participle of bloom
1 When a flower blooms, it opens or is open, and when a plant or tree blooms it produces flowers:
2 to grow or develop successfully:
Data at age 26 years show that they have bloomed.
For a while, projects and promises bloomed.
Most plants in both hermit- and non-hermit hummingbirdpollinated guilds bloomed annually in approximately the same sequence every year, and the temporal distribution of their flowering was uniform within each guild.
The flowers that bloomed in the spring have not succeeded in reaching the stage of fruit.
Indeed, it was during that term of office that the present inflation bloomed.
There is no desert shore in the world that has bloomed forth as it has done into the most wonderful watering-place of modern times.
Exmoor national park is 50 years old this year, during which time it has positively bloomed.
The rose bloomed beautifully but at dawn the nightingale fell dead.
