flourish

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Synonyms: nourish, florist, loutish, reflourish, flours, fluish, floush, flourishy, colourish, sourish, flouring

Antonyms: nourish, florist, loutish, reflourish, flours, fluish, floush, flourishy, colourish, sourish, flouring

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Verb

1. {{lb|en|intransitive}} To [[thrive]] or [[grow]] well.
2. {{lb|en|intransitive}} To [[prosper]] or [[fare]] well.
3. {{lb|en|intransitive}} To be in a [[period]] of greatest [[influence]].
4. {{lb|en|transitive}} To develop; to make thrive; to expand.
5. {{lb|en|transitive}} To make [[bold]], [[sweeping]] [[movement]]s with.
6. {{lb|en|intransitive}} To make bold and sweeping, fanciful, or wanton movements, by way of ornament, parade, bravado, etc.; to play with fantastic and irregular motion.
7. {{lb|en|intransitive}} To use florid language; to indulge in rhetorical figures and lofty expressions.
8. {{lb|en|intransitive}} To make ornamental strokes with the pen; to write graceful, decorative figures.
9. {{lb|en|transitive}} To adorn with beautiful [[figure]]s or [[rhetoric]]; to ornament with anything showy; to embellish.
10. {{lb|en|intransitive}} To execute an irregular or fanciful strain of music, by way of ornament or prelude.
11. {{lb|en|intransitive|obsolete}} To boast; to vaunt; to brag.
12. {{lb|en|transitive|archaic}} To brandish (a weapon).

Noun

1. A [[dramatic]] [[gesture]] such as the [[waving]] of a [[flag]].
2. An [[ornamentation]].
3. {{senseid|en|music}} {{lb|en|music}} A [[ceremonious]] [[passage]] such as a [[fanfare]].
4. {{lb|en|architecture}} A decorative [[embellishment]] on a building.

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