blossom out

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Verb

blossom out (third-person singular simple present blossoms out, present participle blossoming out, simple past and past participle blossomed out)

1. (idiomatic) To blossom, to show beauty.
   • 1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, chapter I, in The House Behind the Cedars:

     "It must be Rena," he murmured. "Who could have dreamed that she would blossom out like that? It must surely be Rena!"

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• out-blossom, outblossom