Antonyms for blossoming

Grammar : Noun

Spell : blos-uhm

Phonetic Transcription : ˈblɒs əm

withering

Definition of blossoming

Origin : c.1200, from Old English blostm, blostma "blossom, flower, fruit," from Proto-Germanic *blo-s- (cf. Middle Low German blosom, Dutch bloesem, German Blust), from PIE *bhlow-, extended form of *bhel- (3) "to thrive, bloom," possibly identical with *bhel- (2) "to blow, inflate, swell" (see bole). This is the native word, now largely superseded by bloom and flower.

noun blooming

Example sentences :

It lies behind that tall monument; I cannot see it for the blossoming boughs.
Extract from : « Malbone » by Thomas Wentworth Higginson

We never see Him bring the bud to the eve of blossoming just to wither it.
Extract from : « The Conquest of Fear » by Basil King

Coleridge's blossoming period as a romantic poet was tragically brief.
Extract from : « The American Mind » by Bliss Perry

Now we shall be cared for, and watered, and there will be some pleasure in blossoming.
Extract from : « Five Mice in a Mouse-trap » by Laura E. Richards

Rathburn shrugged and stared up at the night sky which was blossoming with stars.
Extract from : « The Coyote » by James Roberts

Little swirls of music seemed to swell from it, blossoming in the silence.
Extract from : « The Link » by Alan Edward Nourse

Lilies were blossoming in the house on the beautiful morning of the twentieth of September.
Extract from : « The Home » by Fredrika Bremer

In his case the amaranth had been grafted in, and the plant was blossoming again.
Extract from : « Earl Hubert's Daughter » by Emily Sarah Holt

The Rose beetle appears about the time of the blossoming of the rose.
Extract from : « Our Common Insects » by Alpheus Spring Packard

Here was her beloved Le Zéphyr, with its blossoming cacao-groves.
Extract from : « The Hour and the Man » by Harriet Martineau

Synonyms for blossoming

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