different between awaken vs flourish

English

Etymology

From Middle English awakenen or awaknen, from Old English awæcnan or awæcnian, from a- plus wæcnan or wæcnian.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??we?k?n/
• Rhymes: -e?k?n

Verb

awaken (third-person singular simple present awakens, present participle awakening, simple past and past participle awakened) (but see usage notes)

1. (transitive) To cause to become awake.

   She awakened him by ringing the bell.

2. (intransitive) To stop sleeping; awake.

   Each morning he awakens with a smile on his face.

3. (transitive, figuratively) To bring into action (something previously dormant); to stimulate.

   Awaken your entrepreneurial spirit!

   We hope to awaken your interest in our programme.

4. (theology) To call to a sense of sin.
5. (rare) past participle of awake
   • 1665 Robert Hooke, Micrographia

     [This ant] I ?uffered to lye above an hour in the Spirit; and after I had taken it out, and put its body and legs into a natural po?ture, remained movele?s about an hour; but then , upon a ?udden, as if it had been awaken out of a drunken ?leep, it ?uddenly reviv'd and ran away...

Usage notes

This verb, for many speakers, has been essentially conflated with the verb awake, and has adopted parts of awake’s conjugation. awaken remains the bare form (and also in awakens and awakening), but its simple past and past participle are replaced by those of awake: awoke and awoken, respectively.

For many others, awaken has simply supplanted awake, without adopting conjugational elements from awake.

Synonyms

• (transitive, to cause to become awake): knock up, uprouse; see also Thesaurus:awaken
• (intransitive, to stop sleeping): awake, stir; see also Thesaurus:wake
• (to bring into action): animate, energize; see also Thesaurus:enliven

Antonyms

• (stop sleeping): fall asleep

Translations

English

Alternative forms

• florysh, floryshe (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English floryschen, from Old French floriss-, stem of some conjugated forms of florir (compare French fleurir), from Vulgar Latin *flor?re, from Latin fl?re? (“I bloom”) (and conjugation partly from fl?r?sc?), from fl?s (“flower”). See flower + -ish.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?fl??.??/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?fl??.??/, /?fl?.??/
  • (hypercorrection) IPA^(key): /?fl??.??/
• (accents without the hurry–furry merger)
• (accents with the hurry–furry merger)

Verb

flourish (third-person singular simple present flourishes, present participle flourishing, simple past and past participle flourished)

1. (intransitive) To thrive or grow well.

2. (intransitive) To prosper or fare well.
   • 1795, Robert Nelson, A Companion for the Festivals and Fasts of the Church of England

     Bad men as frequently prosper and flourish, and that by the means of their wickedness.
3. (intransitive) To be in a period of greatest influence.

4. (transitive) To develop; to make thrive; to expand.
   • 1623, Francis Bacon, A Discourse of a War with Spain

     Bottoms of thread […] which with a good needle, perhaps may be flourished into large works.

5. (transitive) To make bold, sweeping movements with.

6. (intransitive) To make bold and sweeping, fanciful, or wanton movements, by way of ornament, parade, bravado, etc.; to play with fantastic and irregular motion.
7. (intransitive) To use florid language; to indulge in rhetorical figures and lofty expressions.
   • 1725, Isaac Watts, Logick, or The Right Use of Reason in the Enquiry After Truth With a Variety of Rules to Guard

     They dilate […] and flourish long upon little incidents.

8. (intransitive) To make ornamental strokes with the pen; to write graceful, decorative figures.
9. (transitive) To adorn with beautiful figures or rhetoric; to ornament with anything showy; to embellish.
   • 1716, Elijah Fenton, an ode to John Gower

     With shadowy verdure flourish'd high,

     A sudden youth the groves enjoy.

   • c. 1603-1604, William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure, Act IV, Scene 1

     To bring you thus together, 'tis no sin, Sith that the justice of your title to him Doth flourish the deceit.

10. (intransitive) To execute an irregular or fanciful strain of music, by way of ornament or prelude.
11. (intransitive, obsolete) To boast; to vaunt; to brag.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:prosper

Translations

Noun

flourish (plural flourishes)

1. A dramatic gesture such as the waving of a flag.
2. An ornamentation.

4. (music) A ceremonious passage such as a fanfare.

5. (architecture) A decorative embellishment on a building.

Translations

References

• flourish in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• rushfoil