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flourish English

Meaning flourish meaning

What does flourish mean?
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flourish Verb

— If something flourishes, it thrives or grows well or successfully. The plants flourished in the greenhouse. Under the new government, the agricultural industry flourished.

flourish

— verb (= boom, thrive) grow vigorously The deer population in this town is thriving business is booming — noun a showy gesture she entered with a great flourish — verb (= thrive) make steady progress; be at the high point in one's career or reach a high point in historical significance or importance The new student is thriving — noun an ornamental embellishment in writing — noun a display of ornamental speech or language — noun the act of waving — noun (= fanfare) (music) a short lively tune played on brass instruments he entered to a flourish of trumpets her arrival was greeted with a rousing fanfare — verb (= wave) move or swing back and forth She waved her gun

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flourish English » English

prosper thrive brandish wave bloom grow swing succeed flower boom blossom increase wield fanfare develop wag prosperity whirl wave about tucket sway spread rise progress luxuriate fling curlicue beat wiggle wax twirl stir up squiggle sprout show off shake prosperous ornament make it look healthy incite improve hitch fly high expand do burgeon be successful be prosperous arouse

Topics flourish topics

What do people use flourish to talk about?
Universe, creation Plant

Growth of plants
Person Sense, perceive See

Show, let someone see
Person Life Stage of life

Grow, get bigger

Conjugation flourish conjugation

How do you conjugate flourish?

flourish · verb

Examples flourish examples

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Simple sentences

When someone speaks with such rhetorical flourish, it starts to sound like they're lying.
Virtue can only flourish amongst equals.
A dictatorship means muzzles all round and consequently stultification. Science can flourish only in an atmosphere of free speech.
Liberty, as we all know, cannot flourish in a country that is permanently on a war footing, or even a near war footing. Permanent crisis justifies permanent control of everybody and everything by the agencies of central government.

Movie subtitles

What amazes me is that scientists are finding life aplenty in environments similar to that, and that just goes to show that life can flourish in even the harshest conditions.
It was a boy and the fair name of Seton would flourish.
To this effect, sir, after what flourish your nature will.
Because this evening, with its warmth and feeling this evening is my signature. The last flourish.
Only a great truth can grow and flourish.
Our task is to discover in what way life is able to survive and flourish there.
Unfortunately, they seem to pick more often on those of his Majesty's friends than his enemies. and the snipers continue to flourish.
Might there not be other plants that will flourish?
This Earth woman we must trust for she can show us how to exist without wings, to survive and flourish.
Our vegetation will flourish.
But we flourish.
What, and allow wickedness to flourish?
May your disciples increase a thousandfold, and flourish. like the palm tree.
The snakes and the rats, they shall flourish and those who are noble and free of soul go down.
Well, the Church must have sons and daughters, you know, if she is to flourish.
The last flourish.
And let love flourish.
A flourish!
Simplicity without flourish.
To the man who will flourish my life.
Magnolias flourish in spring in here, you know?
The only place they flourish is down here in the power room.
But why didn't they take root and flourish?
Our obligation to survive and flourish is owed not just to ourselves but also to that cosmos, ancient and vast from which we spring.
So, this flourish. This eccentricity only appears in some particular areas.
Band, a flourish!
Germs that can flourish in your family bathroom.
This island is their natural habitat and now that man is leaving, well, the bats may once again flourish.
The weak must be eliminated so that the healthy can flourish.
And these people are said to flourish?

News and current affairs

For example, he allowed a private press to flourish, and in 2000 he became the first Ethiopian leader to hold multi-party parliamentary elections.
Businesses, at least the good ones, know that they can't flourish and motivate their workers and consumers unless they are part of the solution.
The conditions under which democracies flourish are also the conditions under which free markets prosper.
To deal with disasters more effectively, countries must find the will to create an environment in which a much more developed private insurance industry can flourish.
The difference, he thought, was that Americans understood that they could not flourish unless their neighbors prospered as well.
Stem cell research requires a sensible, predictable policy environment in order to flourish.
Within that chain Balkan terrorism remains a small but vital link, one which has continued to flourish right under the eyes of NATO and the UN.
In Western Europe, Japan, and the United States, places where individuality lost its novelty long ago and where the managerial spirit and mass commerce flourish, this sameness may be something to debate.
To the extent that these attitudes may have led to a political system in which small and medium-size firms find it difficult to flourish, they may have contributed to France's problems.
Democracy almost everywhere has been a fairly late child of capitalism, for it requires a self-conscious middle class to take root and flourish.
In this age of profound and multiple revolutions, perhaps the greatest revolution will involve the invention of new ways to make democratic freedoms survive and flourish.
For free societies to flourish, the boundaries of free speech should always be widened rather than narrowed.
When business, civil society, and government team up to help countries withstand disasters, they save lives, boost stability, and create opportunities that enable markets and people alike to flourish.
For example, India permits all religions to flourish while ensuring that none is privileged by the state.
Such a project would flourish in a scientific establishment that is maturing, rather than frozen in its methods.
It could indeed become an exemplary country, where justice, democracy and economic opportunity flourish.
Higher value-added sectors and functions that are upstream and downstream from processing industries will also need to flourish.
In reality, of course, a single currency or fixed exchange rate is not needed for trade to flourish.
It is in times of crisis that Utopian ideas about ways of guaranteeing human happiness flourish, often claiming some scientific basis.
Biden concluded with a flourish.
So long as the Haitian state remains fragile and the Haitian economy continues to decompose, the network of mafias living on illegal immigration into the Dominican Republic will continue to flourish.

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