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clooms

clooms is the third-person singular simple present indicative of cloom.

Meaning of cloom

Verb

cloom (third-person singular simple present clooms, present participle clooming, simple past and past participle cloomed)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To close with glutinous matter.
    • If none of these ways will cause them to swarm, but that they lie forth ſtill, then rear the Hive enough to let them in, and cloom up the Skirts all but the Door1707, J[ohn] Mortimer, The Whole Art of Husbandry; or, The Way of Managing and Improving of Land. […], London: […] J[ohn] H[umphreys] for H[enry] Mortlock […], and J[onathan] Robinson […], →OCLC

Questions about clooms

What is clooms the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Clooms is the third-person singular simple present indicative of cloom.

Words near clooms in the dictionary

  1. cloofs
  2. Cloolthpitch
  3. cloom
  4. cloomed
  5. clooming
  6. clooms
  7. Cloonan
  8. Cloonans
  9. Clooney
  10. Clooneyesque
  11. Clooneys

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Adapted from Wiktionary: clooms (page history and authors); cloom (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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