abloom with
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6.4
- idiom
- By late April, the park is abloom with colorful tulips and daffodils.
Examples
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The garden is abloom with colorful flowers.
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The old countryside cottage stood abloom with climbing roses in the summer sun.
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The hills were abloom with wildflowers after the rain.
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In spring, the trees are abloom with blossoms.
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The park is abloom with vibrant tulips and daffodils in the spring.
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By mid-April, the entire meadow is abloom with colorful wildflowers.
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Our backyard is abloom with fragrant jasmine and blooming roses this summer.
Synonyms
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2.3
Having flowers open on a plant or tree
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3.0
A plant with its flowers fully open and very beautiful
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5.1
Covered with many open flowers
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8.2
A plant that produces many flowers
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3.5
Covered in many flowers that smell sweet
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3.9
A place covered with many flowers like a field in spring
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7.5
Producing many flowers
Antonyms
How Blooming
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'abloom' = 'in a state of flowering' and the preposition 'with' indicates what it is full of (e.g., flowers). This follows standard adjective + with construction and is cross-linguistically natural, so a B1 learner who knows the constituents will readily derive the MWE meaning.
Etymology
Abloom with comes from the old prefix a- meaning 'in' plus bloom, the word for the flowers on a plant. Picture a garden covered in flowers; it is 'full of' blossoms, so 'abloom with' means 'covered with flowers'.