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full-blown

[fool-blohn]

adjective

  1. fully or completely developed.

    full-blown AIDS; an idea expanded into a full-blown novel.

  2. in full bloom.

    a full-blown rose.



full-blown

adjective

  1. characterized by the fullest, strongest, or best development

  2. in full bloom

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of full-blown1

First recorded in 1605–15
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"This is evolving into a full-blown war. And there is fatigue in Israel after 20 months of war."

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A journalist based in New Delhi pronounced, based on unspecified evidence, that Los Angeles “is descending into a full-blown warzone.”

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Addressing troops at Fort Bragg in North Carolina, Trump described the protests as a "full-blown assault on peace and public order".

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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.

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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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