Bloom vs. Withering — What's the Difference?

A flower, especially one cultivated for its beauty

Tending to overwhelm or destroy; devastating

A delicate powdery surface deposit on certain fresh fruits, leaves, or stems

Tending to destroy, devastate, overwhelm, or cause complete destruction.

A full, bright sound in a recording

Diminishing rapidly.

A mass of iron, steel, or other metal hammered or rolled into a thick bar for further working

Tending to make someone feel small; scornful in a mortifying way.

Produce flowers; be in flower

Present participle of wither

Coat (a lens) with a special surface layer so as to reduce reflection from its surface.

The process by which something withers.

Make (iron, steel, etc.) into a bloom.

Tending to wither; causing to shrink or fade.

The flower of a plant.

Any weakening or degeneration (especially through lack of use)

Something resembling the flower of a plant

Wreaking or capable of wreaking complete destruction;

The condition of being in flower

Making light of;

A condition or time of vigor and beauty; prime

A fresh, rosy complexion

A waxy or powdery whitish to bluish coating on the surface of certain plant parts, as on cabbage leaves or on a plum or grape.

A similar coating, as on newly minted coins.

Grayish blotches or streaks on the surface of chocolate produced by the formation of cocoa butter crystals.

(Chemistry) See efflorescence.

Glare that is caused by a shiny object reflecting too much light into a camera.

A colored area on the surface of a body of water caused by large numbers of phytoplankton, especially cyanobacteria.

A bar of steel prepared for rolling.

A mass of wrought iron ready for further working.

To bear a flower or flowers.

To support plant life in abundance

To glow; be radiant

To mature or flourish with youth and vigor

To appear or come into being suddenly

To cause to flourish.

(Obsolete) To cause to flower.

A blossom; the flower of a plant; an expanded bud.

(collective) Flowers.

(uncountable) The opening of flowers in general; the state of blossoming or of having the flowers open.

(figuratively) A state or time of beauty, freshness, and vigor; an opening to higher perfection, analogous to that of buds into blossoms.

Rosy colour; the flush or glow on a person's cheek.

The delicate, powdery coating upon certain growing or newly-gathered fruits or leaves, as on grapes, plums, etc.

Anything giving an appearance of attractive freshness.

The clouded appearance which varnish sometimes takes upon the surface of a picture.

A yellowish deposit or powdery coating which appears on well-tanned leather.

(mineralogy) A bright-hued variety of some minerals.

(culinary) A white area of cocoa butter that forms on the surface of chocolate when warmed and cooled.

(television) An undesirable halo effect that may occur when a very bright region is displayed next to a very dark region of the screen.

(video games) The increase in bullet spread over time as a gun's trigger is kept held.

The spongy mass of metal formed in a furnace by the smelting process.

(transitive) To cause to blossom; to make flourish.

(transitive) To bestow a bloom upon; to make blooming or radiant.

(intransitive) Of a plant, to produce blooms; to open its blooms.

Of a person, business, etc, to flourish; to be in a state of healthful, growing youth and vigour; to show beauty and freshness.

(cooking) To bring out the flavor of a spice by cooking it in oil.

A blossom; the flower of a plant; an expanded bud; flowers, collectively.

The opening of flowers in general; the state of blossoming or of having the flowers open; as, the cherry trees are in bloom.

A state or time of beauty, freshness, and vigor; an opening to higher perfection, analogous to that of buds into blossoms; as, the bloom of youth.

The delicate, powdery coating upon certain growing or newly-gathered fruits or leaves, as on grapes, plums, etc. Hence: Anything giving an appearance of attractive freshness; a flush; a glow.

The clouded appearance which varnish sometimes takes upon the surface of a picture.

A yellowish deposit or powdery coating which appears on well-tanned leather.

A popular term for a bright-hued variety of some minerals; as, the rose-red cobalt bloom.

A mass of wrought iron from the Catalan forge or from the puddling furnace, deprived of its dross, and shaped usually in the form of an oblong block by shingling.

To produce or yield blossoms; to blossom; to flower or be in flower.

To be in a state of healthful, growing youth and vigor; to show beauty and freshness, as of flowers; to give promise, as by or with flowers.

To cause to blossom; to make flourish.

To bestow a bloom upon; to make blooming or radiant.

The organic process of bearing flowers;

Reproductive organ of angiosperm plants especially one having showy or colorful parts

The best time of youth

A rosy color (especially in the cheeks) taken as a sign of good health

The period of greatest prosperity or productivity

A powdery deposit on a surface

Produce or yield flowers;