adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
full-blown AIDS (= AIDS at its most advanced stage )
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full-blown AIDS
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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What began as a serious oil spill has become a full-blown environmental disaster.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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As in any full-blown controversy, these polarised positions were the ones taken up by most contributors to the fight.
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But doctors predicted that her chance of developing full-blown diabetes in the next five years was at least 1 in 4.
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Now, however, they are being formally recognised as mild, but genuine, variations of full-blown psychosis.
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Others again, such as physics, chemistry or history, have important professional associations or societies without being full-blown professions.