0 past simple and past participle of flourish
1 to grow or develop successfully:
2 to move something in your hand in order to make people look at it:
Floor shows that some traditional handicrafts suffered from foreign competition during this period, but other handicrafts flourished-such as the handwoven carpet industry.
The town flourished in the second half of the eighth and the first quarter of the 9th century.
Corporate competitions again flourished as a way for corporations to maintain a public image when products were rationed and taken off the market.
But the euergetistic culture of competitive public benefaction known from mediterranean cities never flourished in the interior.
She perseveres in her role, but the power base by which she rose and flourished has been eroded.
The promotion of civic thought in this context might prove to be consistent with the claim that such ideas flourished in the political margins.
On the other hand, husbandry flourished by raising goats, sheep, oxen, horses, swine and other animals.
Cotton and indigo plantations flourished in the early nineteenth century.
