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abloom
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adj 1: bursting into flower; "flowering spring trees" [syn:
abloom, efflorescent]
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assume
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v 1: take to be the case or to be true; accept without
verification or proof; "I assume his train was late" [syn:
assume, presume, take for granted]
2: take on titles, offices, duties, responsibilities; "When will
the new President assume office?" [syn: assume, adopt,
take on, take over]
3: take on a certain form, attribute, or aspect; "His voice took
on a sad tone"; "The story took a new turn"; "he adopted an
air of superiority"; "She assumed strange manners"; "The gods
assume human or animal form in these fables" [syn: assume,
acquire, adopt, take on, take]
4: take on as one's own the expenses or debts of another person;
"I'll accept the charges"; "She agreed to bear the
responsibility" [syn: bear, take over, accept,
assume]
5: occupy or take on; "He assumes the lotus position"; "She took
her seat on the stage"; "We took our seats in the orchestra";
"She took up her position behind the tree"; "strike a pose"
[syn: assume, take, strike, take up]
6: seize and take control without authority and possibly with
force; take as one's right or possession; "He assumed to
himself the right to fill all positions in the town"; "he
usurped my rights"; "She seized control of the throne after
her husband died" [syn: assume, usurp, seize, take
over, arrogate]
7: make a pretence of; "She assumed indifference, even though
she was seething with anger"; "he feigned sleep" [syn:
simulate, assume, sham, feign]
8: take up someone's soul into heaven; "This is the day when May
was assumed into heaven"
9: put clothing on one's body; "What should I wear today?"; "He
put on his best suit for the wedding"; "The princess donned a
long blue dress"; "The queen assumed the stately robes"; "He
got into his jeans" [syn: wear, put on, get into,
don, assume]
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bloom
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n 1: the organic process of bearing flowers; "you will stop all
bloom if you let the flowers go to seed" [syn: blooming,
bloom]
2: reproductive organ of angiosperm plants especially one having
showy or colorful parts [syn: flower, bloom, blossom]
3: the best time of youth [syn: bloom, bloom of youth,
salad days]
4: a rosy color (especially in the cheeks) taken as a sign of
good health [syn: bloom, blush, flush, rosiness]
5: the period of greatest prosperity or productivity [syn:
flower, prime, peak, heyday, bloom, blossom,
efflorescence, flush]
6: a powdery deposit on a surface [syn: efflorescence,
bloom]
v 1: produce or yield flowers; "The cherry tree bloomed" [syn:
bloom, blossom, flower]
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boom
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n 1: a deep prolonged loud noise [syn: boom, roar,
roaring, thunder]
2: a state of economic prosperity
3: a sudden happening that brings good fortune (as a sudden
opportunity to make money); "the demand for testing has
created a boom for those unregulated laboratories where boxes
of specimen jars are processed like an assembly line" [syn:
boom, bonanza, gold rush, gravy, godsend, manna
from heaven, windfall, bunce]
4: a pole carrying an overhead microphone projected over a film
or tv set [syn: boom, microphone boom]
5: any of various more-or-less horizontal spars or poles used to
extend the foot of a sail or for handling cargo or in mooring
v 1: make a resonant sound, like artillery; "His deep voice
boomed through the hall" [syn: boom, din]
2: hit hard; "He smashed a 3-run homer" [syn: smash, nail,
boom, blast]
3: be the case that thunder is being heard; "Whenever it
thunders, my dog crawls under the bed" [syn: thunder,
boom]
4: make a deep hollow sound; "Her voice booms out the words of
the song" [syn: boom, boom out]
5: grow vigorously; "The deer population in this town is
thriving"; "business is booming" [syn: boom, thrive,
flourish, expand]
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broom
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n 1: a cleaning implement for sweeping; bundle of straws or
twigs attached to a long handle
2: any of various shrubs of the genera Cytisus or Genista or
Spartium having long slender branches and racemes of yellow
flowers
3: common Old World heath represented by many varieties; low
evergreen grown widely in the northern hemisphere [syn:
heather, ling, Scots heather, broom, Calluna
vulgaris]
v 1: sweep with a broom or as if with a broom; "Sweep the crumbs
off the table"; "Sweep under the bed" [syn: sweep,
broom]
2: finish with a broom
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consume
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v 1: eat immoderately; "Some people can down a pound of meat in
the course of one meal" [syn: devour, down, consume,
go through]
2: serve oneself to, or consume regularly; "Have another bowl of
chicken soup!"; "I don't take sugar in my coffee" [syn:
consume, ingest, take in, take, have] [ant:
abstain, desist, refrain]
3: spend extravagantly; "waste not, want not" [syn: consume,
squander, waste, ware]
4: destroy completely; "The fire consumed the building"
5: use up (resources or materials); "this car consumes a lot of
gas"; "We exhausted our savings"; "They run through 20
bottles of wine a week" [syn: consume, eat up, use up,
eat, deplete, exhaust, run through, wipe out]
6: engage fully; "The effort to pass the exam consumed all his
energy"
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costume
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n 1: the attire worn in a play or at a fancy dress ball; "he won
the prize for best costume"
2: unusual or period attire not characteristic of or appropriate
to the time and place; "in spite of the heat he insisted on
his woolen costume"
3: the prevalent fashion of dress (including accessories and
hair style as well as garments)
4: the attire characteristic of a country or a time or a social
class; "he wore his national costume"
v 1: dress in a costume; "We dressed up for Halloween as
pumpkins" [syn: costume, dress up]
2: furnish with costumes; as for a film or play
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foredoom
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v 1: doom beforehand