Synonyms

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-n. 2. trimming, frill, furbelow, ornament; ruffle, fringe, valance, edging, skirting, hemming,

flounder, v. 1. struggle, wallow, welter, flop; stagger, stumble, tumble, tumble about, toss about, plunge around, thrash.
2. blunder, bungle, muddle; fail, come to grief, meet with disaster, take a bad turn, collapse, Inf. come a cropper.
3. hesitate, waver, vacillate, falter; lose one's way, drop out.

flour, n. 1. meal, ground or bolted meal, ground

or bolted wheat, bran, farina.
-v. 2. pulverize, mill, grind and bolt.
3. powder, dust, sprinkle, speckle,

flourish, v. 1. grow, grow like a weed, increase, develop, wax; burgeon, mushroom, boom, spring up, burst forth; sprout, bud, germinate, pullulate; bloom, blossom, flower, bear fruit, fructify; mature, maturate, ripen; luxuriate, abound, superabound.
2. be in one's prime, feel good, burst with health, Inf. feel like a million or million bucks; be vigorous, have energy, feel one's oats, Inf. be full of pep or zip or beans.
3. thrive, prosper, succeed, do well, fare well, make good, go great guns, Brit. Dial, fadge; advance, progress, make headway, get ahead, get on or along, rise in the world.
4. brandish, wave, wield, swing, shake.
5. parade, flaunt, vaunt, prance, peacock, strut, swagger, swashbuckle, Inf. show off, Inf. parade one's wares, SI. strut one's stuff, SI. grandstand, SI. hotdog; puff, boast, brag, bluster, Inf. talk big, SI. blow-hard.
6. decorate, ornament, embellish, adorn, trim, garnish; embroider, elaborate, festoon. -n. 7. parade, show, exhibition; flaunt, vaunt, blazon, Inf. dash, Inf. splash.
8. decoration, ornamentation, adornment, embellishment; frill, embroidery, elaboration, Rhet. purple passage or patch; verve, style, flair, panache,

flourishing, adj. thriving, booming, prospering, in full swing, Inf. going strong; growing, waxing, developing, burgeoning, mushrooming; (of vegetation) luxuriant, lush, rank, exuberant.

flout, v. 1. disdain, contemn, scorn, misprize, spurn, scout; disparage, discredit, denounce, decry, vilipend, depreciate, minimize; ridicule, mock, deride, jeer, scoff, laugh in or up one's sleeve at, sneer; burlesque, lampoon, satirize; taunt, fleer, guy, twit, gibe at; poke fun at, snicker, snigger; tease, Inf. rag, chaff.
2. malign, defame, denigrate, slander, libel, Inf. backbite; belittle, humiliate, make a fool of, disgrace, degrade; insult, affront, SI. put down, SI. cut up; blaspheme, profane, take [s.o.'s] name in vain.
-n. 3. insult, affront, SI. cut, SI. put-down, slap in the face; slur, dig, barb; abuse, contumely, contempt, disdain, scorn; repudiation, disparagement, belittle-ment, depreciation; humiliation, degradation, abasement, mortification; ridicule, derision, mockery, scoffing, sneering; gibe, jeer, taunt, fling, quip, wipe; hoot, hiss, catcall, sibilation; obscenity, vulgarity, blasphemy, profanity, scurrility.

flow, v. 1. run, stream, proceed, drift, glide, slide, move, go along; roll, purl, ripple, gurgle, bubble, trickle; rush, cascade, fall; circulate, move around or through, pass through.
2. Usu.

flow from issue, emanate, grow, arise, result, follow, derive; originate, begin, come from, start, be born at.
3. gush, surge, swell, well or rush forth; effuse, spout, spurt, jet, ejaculate.
4. overflow, flood, brim over, well over, run over, spill over orout, slosh orslop over, leak out, seep, ooze, drip; abound, teem, be rich in, be full of, run over with, be overrun with.