overbloom
overbloom verb: to produce an excessive amount of flowers or algae.
Verb
overbloom (third-person singular simple present overblooms, present participle overblooming, simple past and past participle overbloomed)
- To produce an excessive amount of flowers or algae.
- Coupled with sewage, the unnatural intensity of these nutrients makes the algae in the bay overbloom, and too much algae in turn blocks sunlight.2004, Robert P. Marzec, The Mid-Atlantic Region, page 83
Forms of overbloom
| third-person singular present | overblooms |
|---|---|
| present participle | overblooming |
| past participle | overbloomed |
| past | overbloomed |
Origin of overbloom
From over- + bloom.
Questions about overbloom
- What does overbloom mean?
- Overbloom means to produce an excessive amount of flowers or algae.
- What part of speech is overbloom?
- Overbloom is a verb.
- What is the past tense of overbloom?
- The past tense of overbloom is overbloomed.
Words near overbloom in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: overbloom (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.
Last updated:
Cite this entry: “overbloom.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/overbloom. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.