Why “embloom” is a great word
EMBLOOM — [Verb] To cause to be covered in or enriched by blossoms. From the prefix em- (a variant of en-, meaning 'to cause to be in' or 'to put into') + bloom (from Middle English blome, from Old Norse blóm, meaning 'flower, blossom'). First attested before 1529 in the writing of John Skelton. Unlike "blossom," which describes a flower's own intransitive unfolding, or "adorn," a general decorative act without the specific, generative flourish, to embloom is a transitive, generative act of bestowing floral vitality upon another. It is the gardener's hand training clematis over a stark trellis, the spring rain sheathing a gray hillside in lupine, or the careful pressing of violets into a love letter's margin—a conscious investment of ephemeral life into a waiting form, a fleeting gift of borrowed vitality.