flourishverb
uk/ˈflʌr.ɪʃ/us/ˈflɝː.ɪʃ/flourish verb (SUCCEED)
C2 [ I ] to grow or develop successfully:
My tomatoes are flourishing this summer - it must be the warm weather.
Watercolour painting began to flourish in Britain around 1750.
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Making progress and advancing
- a step forward idiom
- advance
- advancement
- ahead
- be cooking idiom
- betterment
- develop
- graduate
- grow
- grow into sb/sth
- grow out of sth
- have come a long way idiom
- headway
- rise
- shape
- speciation
- spread your wings idiom
- steer a course/path idiom
- step
- streak ahead
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flourish verb (WAVE)
[ T ] mainly UK to move something in your hand in order to make people look at it:
She came in smiling, flourishing her exam results.
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Shaking, swinging and vibrating
- agitate
- brandish
- churn
- fluff sth up
- flutter
- jitter
- joggle
- oscillate
- resonate
- rocky
- shake
- swing
- teeter
- throb
- totter
- tremble
- tremulous
- vibrate
- wag
- worry
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flourishnoun
uk/ˈflʌr.ɪʃ/us/ˈflɝː.ɪʃ/with a flourish
If you do something with a flourish, you do it with one big, noticeable movement:
The waiter handed me the menu with a flourish.
He took off his hat with a flourish.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Shaking, swinging and vibrating
- agitate
- brandish
- churn
- fluff sth up
- flutter
- jitter
- joggle
- oscillate
- resonate
- rocky
- shake
- swing
- teeter
- throb
- totter
- tremble
- tremulous
- vibrate
- wag
- worry
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