flourish
part of speech
verb (flourish, flourishes, flourished, flourishing); noun (a flourish, flourishes)
meaning for a pupil
1) To flourish is to grow well and be healthy and strong, like plants in good soil. tree →
2) To flourish is to do very well and be successful, like a business or a person. tree →
3) To flourish something is to wave it around to show it off. tree →
4) A flourish is a fancy curl in handwriting, or a showy movement or bit of music. tree →
sense in the lessons
Science (plants flourish with light and water), history (civilizations flourished), and wellbeing (children flourish with care). In stories, with a flourish = showily. Phrases: with a flourish, flourish in, flourishing business.
examples
- The sunflowers flourished in the sunny corner. tree →
- Ancient Egypt flourished along the Nile. tree →
- She has flourished at her new school. tree →
- The magician bowed with a flourish. tree →
- He signed his name with a flourish. tree →
- The knight flourished his sword. tree →
- Small shops flourish when people buy locally. tree →
- Ya-hip! ya-hip!' And he flourished his broom in triumph." tree →
note
Spelling: flour-ish (not «flurish»). Say «FLUR-ish». Similar: thrive. Not related to flour for baking.
In the corpora
- Corn shall make the young men flourish, and new wine the maids.
- In his days let the righteous flourish, and abundance of peace, till the moon be no more.
- In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth.
- The righteous shall flourish like the palm-tree; he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon.
- Planted in the house of the LORD, they shall flourish in the courts of our God.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «flourish» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.