bloom vs undress

bloom

noun
  • Anything giving an appearance of attractive freshness. 

  • A state or time of beauty, freshness, and vigor; an opening to higher perfection, analogous to that of buds into blossoms. 

  • A yellowish deposit or powdery coating which appears on well-tanned leather. 

  • Rosy colour; the flush or glow on a person's cheek. 

  • The opening of flowers in general; the state of blossoming or of having the flowers open. 

  • A bright-hued variety of some minerals. 

  • The delicate, powdery coating upon certain growing or newly-gathered fruits or leaves, as on grapes, plums, etc. 

  • A blossom; the flower of a plant; an expanded bud. 

  • Flowers. 

  • A white area of cocoa butter that forms on the surface of chocolate when warmed and cooled. 

  • An undesirable halo effect that may occur when a very bright region is displayed next to a very dark region of the screen. 

  • The increase in bullet spread over time as a gun's trigger is kept held. 

  • The spongy mass of metal formed in a furnace by the smelting process. 

  • The clouded appearance which varnish sometimes takes upon the surface of a picture. 

verb
  • To cause to blossom; to make flourish. 

  • To bring out the flavor of a spice by cooking it in oil. 

  • To bestow a bloom upon; to make blooming or radiant. 

  • Of a person, business, etc, to flourish; to be in a state of healthful, growing youth and vigour; to show beauty and freshness. 

  • Of a plant, to produce blooms; to open its blooms. 

undress

noun
  • Informal clothing for men, as opposed to formal or ceremonial wear. 

  • Partial or informal dress for women, as worn in the home rather than in public. 

  • Now more specifically, a state of having few or no clothes on. 

verb
  • To remove the clothing of (someone). 

  • To remove one's clothing. 

  • To remove one’s clothing. 

  • To strip of something. 

  • To take the dressing, or covering, from. 

How often have the words bloom and undress occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )