Flourish vs. Nourish — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Flourish and Nourish
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Flourish
To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive
The crops flourished in the rich soil.
Nourish
To provide with food or other substances necessary for life and growth; feed.
Flourish
To do or fare well; prosper
"No village on the railroad failed to flourish" (John Kenneth Galbraith).
Nourish
To foster the development of; promote
"Athens was an imperial city, nourished by the tribute of subjects" (V. Gordon Childe).
Flourish
To be in a period of highest productivity, excellence, or influence
A poet who flourished in the tenth century.
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Nourish
To keep alive; maintain
Nourish a hope.
Flourish
To make bold, sweeping movements
The banner flourished in the wind.
Nourish
(obsolete) A nurse.
Flourish
To wield, wave, or exhibit dramatically.
Nourish
(transitive) To feed and cause to grow; to supply with food or other matter which increases weight and promotes health.
Flourish
A dramatic or stylish movement, as of waving or brandishing
"A few ... musicians embellish their performance with a flourish of the fingers" (Frederick D. Bennett).
Nourish
(transitive) To support; to maintain; to be responsible for.
Flourish
An embellishment or ornamentation
A signature with a distinctive flourish.
Nourish
(transitive) To encourage; to foster; to stimulate
Flourish
An ostentatious act or gesture
A flourish of generosity.
Nourish
(transitive)To cherish; to comfort.
Flourish
(Music) A showy or ceremonious passage, such as a fanfare.
Nourish
To educate or bring up; to nurture; to promote emotional, spiritual or other non-physical growth.
Flourish
(intransitive) To thrive or grow well.
The barley flourished in the warm weather.
Nourish
(intransitive) To promote growth; to furnish nutriment.
This type of nourishes very well.
Flourish
(intransitive) To prosper or fare well.
The town flourished with the coming of the railway.
The cooperation flourished as the customers rushed in the business.
Nourish
To gain nourishment.
Flourish
(intransitive) To be in a period of greatest influence.
His writing flourished before the war.
Nourish
To feed and cause to grow; to supply with matter which increases bulk or supplies waste, and promotes health; to furnish with nutriment.
He planteth an ash, and the rain doth nourish it.
Flourish
(transitive) To develop; to make thrive; to expand.
Nourish
To support; to maintain.
Whiles I in Ireland nourish a mighty band.
Flourish
(transitive) To make bold, sweeping movements with.
They flourished the banner as they stormed the palace.
The squirrel flourished its fluffy tail about as an alarm signal after its narrow escape from the cat.
Nourish
To supply the means of support and increase to; to encourage; to foster; as, to nourish rebellion; to nourish the virtues.
Flourish
(intransitive) To make bold and sweeping, fanciful, or wanton movements, by way of ornament, parade, bravado, etc.; to play with fantastic and irregular motion.
Nourish
To cherish; to comfort.
Ye have nourished your hearts.
Flourish
(intransitive) To use florid language; to indulge in rhetorical figures and lofty expressions.
Nourish
To educate; to instruct; to bring up; to nurture; to promote the growth of in attainments.
Nourished up in the words of faith.
Flourish
(intransitive) To make ornamental strokes with the pen; to write graceful, decorative figures.
Nourish
To promote growth; to furnish nutriment.
Grains and roots nourish more than their leaves.
Flourish
(transitive) To adorn with beautiful figures or rhetoric; to ornament with anything showy; to embellish.
Nourish
To gain nourishment.
Flourish
(intransitive) To execute an irregular or fanciful strain of music, by way of ornament or prelude.
Nourish
A nurse.
Flourish
To boast; to vaunt; to brag.
Nourish
Provide with nourishment;
We sustained ourselves on bread and water
This kind of food is not nourishing for young children
Flourish
A dramatic gesture such as the waving of a flag.
With many flourishes of the captured banner, they marched down the avenue.
Nourish
Give nourishment to
Flourish
An ornamentation.
His signature ended with a flourish.
Flourish
(music) A ceremonious passage such as a fanfare.
The trumpets blew a flourish as they entered the church.
Flourish
(architecture) A decorative embellishment on a building.
Flourish
To grow luxuriantly; to increase and enlarge, as a healthy growing plant; a thrive.
A tree thrives and flourishes in a kindly . . . soil.
Flourish
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.
When all the workers of iniquity do flourish.
Bad men as frequently prosper and flourish, and that by the means of their wickedness.
We sayOf those that held their heads above the crowd,They flourished then or then.
Flourish
To use florid language; to indulge in rhetorical figures and lofty expressions; to be flowery.
They dilate . . . and flourish long on little incidents.
Flourish
To make bold and sweeping, fanciful, or wanton movements, by way of ornament, parade, bravado, etc.; to play with fantastic and irregular motion.
Impetuous spreadThe stream, and smoking flourished o'er his head.
Flourish
To make ornamental strokes with the pen; to write graceful, decorative figures.
Flourish
To execute an irregular or fanciful strain of music, by way of ornament or prelude.
Why do the emperor's trumpets flourish thus?
Flourish
To boast; to vaunt; to brag.
Flourish
To adorn with flowers orbeautiful figures, either natural or artificial; to ornament with anything showy; to embellish.
Flourish
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.
Sith that the justice of your title to himDoth flourish the deceit.
Flourish
To move in bold or irregular figures; to swing about in circles or vibrations by way of show or triumph; to brandish.
And flourishes his blade in spite of me.
Flourish
To develop; to make thrive; to expand.
Bottoms of thread . . . which with a good needle, perhaps may be flourished into large works.
Flourish
A flourishing condition; prosperity; vigor.
The Roman monarchy, in her highest flourish, never had the like.
Flourish
Decoration; ornament; beauty.
The flourish of his sober youthWas the pride of naked truth.
Flourish
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.
He lards with flourishes his long harangue.
Flourish
A fanciful stroke of the pen or graver; a merely decorative figure.
The neat characters and flourishes of a Bible curiously printed.
Flourish
A fantastic or decorative musical passage; a strain of triumph or bravado, not forming part of a regular musical composition; a cal; a fanfare.
A flourish, trumpets! strike alarum, drums!
Flourish
The waving of a weapon or other thing; a brandishing; as, the flourish of a sword.
Flourish
A showy gesture;
She entered with a great flourish
Flourish
An ornamental embellishment in writing
Flourish
A display of ornamental speech or language
Flourish
The act of waving
Flourish
(music) a short lively tune played on brass instruments;
He entered to a flourish of trumpets
Her arrival was greeted with a rousing fanfare
Flourish
Grow stronger;
The economy was booming
Flourish
Gain in wealth
Flourish
Move or swing back and forth;
She waved her gun
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