How to pronounce “flourish”

Meaning

• [Verb]
• (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.
• (transitive, archaic) To brandish (a weapon).
• [Noun]
• A dramatic gesture such as the waving of a flag.
• An ornamentation.
• (music) A ceremonious passage such as a fanfare.
• (architecture) A decorative embellishment on a building.

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