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flourish::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | fanfare, tucket |
| Type of | strain, line, melodic line, melodic phrase, melody, air, tune |
he entered to a flourish of trumpets.
flourish::verb | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | fly high, prosper, thrive |
| Type of | change state, turn |
flourish::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | grandiloquence, magniloquence, ornateness, grandiosity, rhetoric |
flourish::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | embellishment |
| Has types | paraph |
Examples of flourish
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As certain citizens flourish and others remain stuck, can the community survive?
From the timesunion.com
Will newcomer Curtis Granderson flourish or wilt in his first Yankee postseason?
From the online.wsj.com
Mr. Todaro said Lesser flies flourish in the spring, early summer and late fall.
From the post-gazette.com
So why would anybody think that a village would flourish around the new stadium?
From the stltoday.com
McIlroy plodded through the first 12 holes at 1 over but closed with a flourish.
From the ocregister.com
It's that the initiative process gives many a lunatic idea a chance to flourish.
From the latimes.com
On another home, an occasional flourish of gold leaf provides a finishing touch.
From the nzherald.co.nz
Yet the pain of the play steams through, as does its unexpected joyful flourish.
From the guardian.co.uk
Phytoplankton live near the water's surface and flourish through photosynthesis.
From the sciencedaily.com
- A showy gesture; "she entered with a great flourish"
- Boom: grow vigorously; "The deer population in this town is thriving"; "business is booming"
- An ornamental embellishment in writing
- 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"
- A display of ornamental speech or language
- Brandish: move or swing back and forth; "She waved her gun"
- Ruffles and flourishes are preceding fanfare for ceremonial music for distinguished people.
- Flourish (2008) is a film written, produced and directed by Kevin Palys and starring Jennifer Morrison, Jesse Spencer, Leighton Meester and Ian Brennan (writer).
- A flourish is a juggling club trick in which the performer spins the club around his fingers. The club actually makes two revolutions around its center of gravity, once on the medial side of the juggler's hand and once on the lateral side.
