亚洲网紅露点

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flourish

[ flur-ish, fluhr- ]

verb (used without object)

  1. to be in a vigorous state; thrive:

    a period in which art flourished.

    Synonyms: ,

    Antonyms: ,

  2. to be in its or in one's prime; be at the height of fame, excellence, influence, etc.
  3. to be successful; prosper.
  4. to grow luxuriantly, or thrive in growth, as a plant.
  5. to make dramatic, sweeping gestures:

    Flourish more when you act out the king's great death scene.

  6. to add embellishments and ornamental lines to writing, letters, etc.
  7. to sound a trumpet call or fanfare.


verb (used with object)

  1. to brandish dramatically; gesticulate with:

    a conductor flourishing his baton for the crescendo.

  2. to decorate or embellish (writing, a page of script, etc.) with sweeping or fanciful curves or lines.

    Synonyms:

noun

  1. an act or instance of brandishing.
  2. an ostentatious display.
  3. a decoration or embellishment, especially in writing:

    He added a few flourishes to his signature.

    Synonyms: ,

  4. Rhetoric. a parade of fine language; an expression used merely for effect.
  5. a trumpet call or fanfare.
  6. a condition or period of thriving:

    in full flourish.

flourish

/ 藞蹿濒蕦谤瑟蕛 /

verb

  1. intr to thrive; prosper
  2. intr to be at the peak of condition
  3. intr to be healthy

    plants flourish in the light

  4. to wave or cause to wave in the air with sweeping strokes
  5. to display or make a display
  6. to play (a fanfare, etc) on a musical instrument
  7. intr to embellish writing, characters, etc, with ornamental strokes
  8. to add decorations or embellishments to (speech or writing)
  9. intr an obsolete word for blossom
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

noun

  1. the act of waving or brandishing
  2. a showy gesture

    he entered with a flourish

  3. an ornamental embellishment in writing
  4. a display of ornamental language or speech
  5. a grandiose passage of music
  6. an ostentatious display or parade
  7. obsolete.
    1. the state of flourishing
    2. the state of flowering
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • 藞蹿濒辞耻谤颈蝉丑别谤, noun
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Other 亚洲网紅露点 Forms

  • 蹿濒辞耻谤顎僫蝉丑路别谤 noun
  • 辞耻迟顎协濒辞耻谤顎僫蝉丑 verb (used with object)
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of flourish1

First recorded in 1250鈥1300; Middle English florisshen, from Middle French floriss-, long stem of florir, ultimately from Latin 蹿濒艒谤脓谤别 鈥渢o bloom,鈥 derivative of 蹿濒艒蝉 flower
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of flourish1

C13: from Old French florir , ultimately from Latin 蹿濒艒谤脓谤别 to flower, from 蹿濒艒蝉 a flower
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He was eventually placed with Advance Housing, where his family says Jason has flourished in the intervening eight years.

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鈥淲e have the solutions, we have the technologies, we have the ways of controlling pollution while enabling our economy to flourish.鈥

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Because of that, drawing flourished as a wholly independent medium in the 1970s, thanks to the concurrent rise of idea-intensive Conceptual art.

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The proposed legislation would devolve powers to local municipalities and counties to protect the ability of local ecosystems to exist, to flourish naturally, and to be restored when harmed.

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But Rachel Springall, from Moneyfacts, said there was a flourishing choice of mortgages for those whose ability to pay a deposit is stretched.

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