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Synonyms for flourish
Synonyms for flourish: thrive and burgeon. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 2 synonyms for flourish
Interchangeable with flourish in this sense
Audited under flourish's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one flourish carries in that sense.
- thriveverb, in the sense "to grow vigorously and healthily"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name flourish as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- burgeonburgeon is a verb in the sense "to grow or develop rapidly"
The first group is filed under flourish's own sense. The second reaches flourish from the partner word's entry, so the sense quoted beside it is that word's.
to grow vigorously and healthily
With plenty of sunlight and rain, the garden began to flourish.
The true synonym
thrive
Same sentence, swapped: With plenty of sunlight and rain, the garden began to thrive.
Close but different
Wrong tiles, chosen to be tempting rather than absurd. The reason line above takes the nearest one apart; the rest fail the same sentence for their own reasons.
- wilt
- ripen
- spread
Where flourish turns up in the game
flourish is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 2, Treeline. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in four other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzles where flourish is the trap
- sprawlverb, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is spread, in the sense "to spread out over a large area in a loose, irregular way", with flourish sitting one tile away.
- ossifyverb, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is stagnate, in the sense "to stop developing and become fixed or outdated", so flourish is there to be ruled out.
- wrinkleverb, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is crease, in the sense "become wrinkled or crumpled or creased", and flourish is on the board beside it.
- founderverb, Tier 4, High Camp. The answer there is miscarry, in the sense "to fail completely or collapse, especially after struggling", so flourish is there to be ruled out.
Play flourish
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so flourish reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Neighbours by theme before neighbours by difficulty, because nature is the company flourish keeps.
Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. flourish carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.