flourish

IPA: fɫˈɝɪʃ

(intransitive) To thrive or grow well.
(intransitive) To prosper or fare well.
(intransitive) To be in a period of greatest influence.
(transitive) To develop; to make thrive; to expand.
(transitive) To make bold, sweeping movements with.
(intransitive) To make bold and sweeping, fanciful, or wanton movements, by way of ornament, parade, bravado, etc.; to play with fantastic and irregular motion.
(intransitive) To use florid language; to indulge in rhetorical figures and lofty expressions.
(intransitive) To make ornamental strokes with the pen; to write graceful, decorative figures.
(transitive) To adorn with beautiful figures or rhetoric; to ornament with anything showy; to embellish.
(intransitive) To execute an irregular or fanciful strain of music, by way of ornament or prelude.
(intransitive, obsolete) To boast; to vaunt; to brag.

Examples of "flourish" in Sentences

Ospreys aim for final flourish.
The man's business is flourishing.
The myths that help rape to flourish.
Democracy must be allowed to flourish.
The craft and commerce are flourishing.
The people of the place were flourishing.
The band is flourishing and is on the rise.
The village is an exuberant and flourishing place.
At the end of the 19th century carpentry flourished.
The first plantings of the garden are now blooming and flourishing.
To make him the foil and flip-side of his own deranged killer for the purposes of a cutesy rhetorical flourish is obscene.
The chief design flourish is the patterned panel on the sides of the jersey and shorts that evokes the shell of a diamondback terrapin.
If the striper population flourished during the years of commercial fishing then why can it not again flourish along with commercial fishing.
Upsets may occur, even painful misunderstandings and separations, yet the essential love remains, and might again flourish, more temperately.
He saw the label flourish throughout the 2000s, releasing women's and men's ready-to-wear collections as well as accessories, eyewear and two fragrances.
The way an authoritarian government can flourish is to create a sub-maximization: look at all the trouble that people who are trying to over-throw us are causing.