The difference between Flourish and Succeed
When used as verbs, flourish means to thrive or grow well, whereas succeed means to follow in order.
Flourish is also noun with the meaning: a dramatic gesture such as the waving of a flag.
check bellow for the other definitions of Flourish and Succeed
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Flourish as a verb (intransitive):
To thrive or grow well.
Examples:
"The barley flourished in the warm weather."
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Flourish as a verb (intransitive):
To prosper or fare well.
Examples:
"The town flourished with the coming of the railway."
"The cooperation flourished as the customers rushed in the business."
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Flourish as a verb (intransitive):
To be in a period of greatest influence.
Examples:
"His writing flourished before the war."
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Flourish as a verb (transitive):
To develop; to make thrive; to expand.
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Flourish as a verb (transitive):
To make bold, sweeping movements with.
Examples:
"They flourished the banner as they stormed the palace."
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Flourish as a verb (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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Flourish as a verb (intransitive):
To use florid language; to indulge in rhetorical figures and lofty expressions.
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Flourish as a verb (intransitive):
To make ornamental strokes with the pen; to write graceful, decorative figures.
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Flourish as a verb (transitive):
To adorn with beautiful figures or rhetoric; to ornament with anything showy; to embellish.
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Flourish as a verb (intransitive):
To execute an irregular or fanciful strain of music, by way of ornament or prelude.
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Flourish as a verb (intransitive, obsolete):
To boast; to vaunt; to brag.
Examples:
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Flourish as a noun:
A dramatic gesture such as the waving of a flag.
Examples:
"With many flourishes of the captured banner, they marched down the avenue."
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Flourish as a noun:
An ornamentation.
Examples:
"His signature ended with a flourish."
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Flourish as a noun (music):
A ceremonious passage such as a fanfare.
Examples:
"The trumpets blew a flourish as they entered the church."
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Flourish as a noun (architecture):
A decorative embellishment on a building.
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Succeed as a verb:
To follow in order; to come next after; hence, to take the place of.
Examples:
"The king's eldest son succeeds his father on the throne."
"Autumn succeeds summer."
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Succeed as a verb:
To obtain the object desired; to accomplish what is attempted or intended; to have a prosperous issue or termination; to be successful.
Examples:
"The persecution of any righteous practice has never succeeded in the face of history; in fact, it can expedite the collapse of the persecutory regime."
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Succeed as a verb (obsolete, rare):
To fall heir to; to inherit.
Examples:
"So, if the issue of the elder son succeed before the younger, I am king."
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Succeed as a verb:
To come after; to be subsequent or consequent to; to follow; to pursue.
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Succeed as a verb:
To support; to prosper; to promote.
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Succeed as a verb:
To come in the place of another person, thing, or event; to come next in the usual, natural, or prescribed course of things; to follow; hence, to come next in the possession of anything; -- often with to. To ascend the throne after the removal the death of the occupant.
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Succeed as a verb:
To descend, as an estate or an heirloom, in the same family; to devolve.
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Succeed as a verb:
To go under cover.