full-blown
adjective
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: possessing or exhibiting all the usual or necessary features or symptoms
a full-blown scandal
ideas that did not emerge full-blown but took years to develop
Examples of full-blown in a Sentence
before he became a full-blown literary sensation, he wrote articles for little journals that paid even littler money
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Audiences may think Redford emerged full-blown as a movie star.
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Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor, 20 Sep. 2025
The master of suspense made almost 70 films and TV shows across his staggering, more-than-half-a-century-long career, graduating from black-and-white, silent British potboilers to full-blown, Technicolor Hollywood blockbusters.
—Radhika Seth, Vogue, 13 Sep. 2025
The economy was teetering on the edge when the crisis became full-blown in October 1907.
—Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 26 Aug. 2025
For job seekers, that precariousness has become full-blown.
—Rob Wile, NBC News, 4 Oct. 2024
But the companies say their transition to a full-blown, Uber-like taxi service will take time.
—WIRED, 11 Aug. 2023
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Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor, 20 Sep. 2025
The master of suspense made almost 70 films and TV shows across his staggering, more-than-half-a-century-long career, graduating from black-and-white, silent British potboilers to full-blown, Technicolor Hollywood blockbusters.
—Radhika Seth, Vogue, 13 Sep. 2025
The economy was teetering on the edge when the crisis became full-blown in October 1907.
—Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 26 Aug. 2025
For job seekers, that precariousness has become full-blown.
—Rob Wile, NBC News, 4 Oct. 2024
But the companies say their transition to a full-blown, Uber-like taxi service will take time.
—WIRED, 11 Aug. 2023
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“Full-blown.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/full-blown. Accessed 5 Apr. 2026.
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full-blown
adjective
: fully developed : being in its most extreme or serious form : possessing or exhibiting the characteristic symptoms
a full-blown cold
full-blown hypertension
a collection of symptoms that isn't quite full-blown AIDS—J. Silberner
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