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full-blown
[fool-blohn]
adjective
fully or completely developed.
full-blown AIDS; an idea expanded into a full-blown novel.
in full bloom.
a full-blown rose.
full-blown
adjective
characterized by the fullest, strongest, or best development
in full bloom
Word History and Origins
Origin of full-blown1
Example Sentences
"This is evolving into a full-blown war. And there is fatigue in Israel after 20 months of war."
A journalist based in New Delhi pronounced, based on unspecified evidence, that Los Angeles “is descending into a full-blown warzone.”
Addressing troops at Fort Bragg in North Carolina, Trump described the protests as a "full-blown assault on peace and public order".
The city entered a full-blown financial crisis earlier this year, driven in large part by rapidly rising legal payouts, weaker than expected tax revenues and scheduled raises for city employees.
followed was four days of tit-for-tat shelling and drone attacks, intensifying each day and culminating in missile strikes on military bases, which threatened to tip over into full-blown conflict.
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