Flourish
noun — Plural: Flourishes
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- (ornament, a fanciful stroke of the pen thriving, vigorous) flourish of a sword ការគ្រវី, flourish of a pen ការសរសេរយ៉ាងគ្រវីគ្រវាត់ verbal flourish សំដីពិរោះក្បោះក្បាយ, flourishing trade ជំនួញចម្រើនល្អ
verb — past tense: flourished ; past participle: flourished ; present participle: flourishing ;
- 1.
- (បច្ចេកទេស) លូតលាស់, រីកចម្រើនល្អ
- 2.
- (TRANSITIVE) (to brandish, display, to wave or swing about in the air, to decorate with flowery ornament or with florid diction) flourish a sword គ្រវី, flourish one's letters សរសេរគ្រវីគ្រវាត់
Example: Because of his hard work, Dick's business flourished, and he was soon employing twenty peopl - 3.
- (INTRANSITIVE) (to thrive, to use florid language) business flourish ចម្រើនបានល្អ, crops flourish លូតលាស់ល្អ
ENGLISH MEANING
noun — Plural: Flourishes
- 1.
- A flourishing condition; prosperity; vigor.
- 2.
- Decoration; ornament; beauty.
- 3.
- Something made or performed in a fanciful, wanton, or vaunting manner, by way of ostentation, to excite admiration, etc.; ostentatious embellishment; ambitious copiousness or amplification; parade of words and figures; show; as, a flourish of rhetoric or of wit.
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- A fanciful stroke of the pen or graver; a merely decorative figure.
- 5.
- A fantastic or decorative musical passage; a strain of triumph or bravado, not forming part of a regular musical composition; a cal; a fanfare.
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- The waving of a weapon or other thing; a brandishing; as, the flourish of a sword.
verb — past tense: flourished ; past participle: flourished ; present participle: flourishing ;
- 1.
- (TRANSITIVE) To develop; to make thrive; to expand.
- 2.
- (INTRANSITIVE) To grow luxuriantly; to increase and enlarge, as a healthy growing plant; a thrive.
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- (INTRANSITIVE) To be prosperous; to increase in wealth, honor, comfort, happiness, or whatever is desirable; to thrive; to be prominent and influental; specifically, of authors, painters, etc., to be in a state of activity or production.
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- (INTRANSITIVE) To use florid language; to indulge in rhetorical figures and lofty expressions; to be flowery.
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- (INTRANSITIVE) To make bold and sweeping, fanciful, or wanton movements, by way of ornament, parade, bravado, etc.; to play with fantastic and irregular motion.
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- (INTRANSITIVE) To make ornamental strokes with the pen; to write graceful, decorative figures.
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- (INTRANSITIVE) To execute an irregular or fanciful strain of music, by way of ornament or prelude.
- 8.
- (TRANSITIVE) To adorn with flowers orbeautiful figures, either natural or artificial; to ornament with anything showy; to embellish.
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- (TRANSITIVE) To embellish with the flowers of diction; to adorn with rhetorical figures; to grace with ostentatious eloquence; to set off with a parade of words.
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- (TRANSITIVE) To move in bold or irregular figures; to swing about in circles or vibrations by way of show or triumph; to brandish.
- 1.
- burgeon, flower, grow, increase, luxuriate, prosper, thrive
- 2.
- brandish, display, flaunt, gesture, parade, vaunt, wave
- 3.
- adorn, decorate
- 1.
- To boast, to vaunt, to brag