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burgeoning
[bur-juhn] 
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burgeon
[bur-juhn]
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| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | bloom |
| Synonyms: | blossom, bud, expand, flower, grow, increase, mushroom, prosper, snowball, sprout, thrive |
| Antonyms: | shrink |
| Main Entry: | bloom |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | flower; flourish |
| Synonyms: | be in flower, bear fruit, blossom, blow, bud, burgeon, burst, develop, effloresce, fare well, fructify, germinate, grow, open, prosper, sprout, succeed, tassel out, thrive, wax |
| Antonyms: | shrink, shrivel, wither |
| Main Entry: | blossom |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | flower |
| Synonyms: | bloom, blow, burgeon, burst, effloresce, leaf, open, outbloom, shoot, unfold |
| Antonyms: | fade, shrink, shrivel, wither |
| Main Entry: | bud |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | sprout |
| Synonyms: | burgeon, burst forth, develop, grow, pullulate, shoot |
| Antonyms: | die, shrink, waste, wither |
| Main Entry: | budding |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | developing, flowering |
| Synonyms: | beginning, blossoming, burgeoning, bursting forth, embryonic, fledgling, fresh, germinal, germinating, growing, incipient, maturing, nascent, opening, potential, promising, pubescent, pullulating, shooting up, sprouting, vegetating, young |
| Antonyms: | dying, shrinking, withering |
| Main Entry: | expand |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | extend, augment |
| Synonyms: | aggrandize, amplify, beef up, bloat, blow up, bolster, broaden, bulk up, burgeon, detail, develop, diffuse, dilate, distend, elaborate, embellish, enlarge, explicate, fan out, fatten, fill out, grow, heighten, hike, increase, inflate, lengthen, magnify, mount, multiply, mushroom, open, open out, outspread, pad, piggyback, prolong, protract, puff up, pyramid, slap on, soup up, spread, spread out, stretch, stretch out, swell, tack on, thicken, unfold, unfurl, unravel, unroll, upsurge, wax, widen |
| Antonyms: | abbreviate, contract, lessen, lower, shorten, shrink |
| Main Entry: | flourish |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | grow, prosper |
| Synonyms: | amplify, arrive, augment, batten, be on top of heap, bear fruit, bloom, blossom, boom, burgeon, come along, develop, do well, expand, flower, get ahead, get on, go, go great guns, hit it big, increase, live high on hog, make out, multiply, score, succeed, thrive, wax |
| Antonyms: | cease, fail, hinder, languish, stunt |
| Main Entry: | flourishing |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | prospering, going well |
| Synonyms: | blooming, burgeoning, doing well, expanding, exuberant, going strong, growing, in full swing, in the pink, in top form, lush, luxuriant, mushrooming, profuse, prosperous, rampant, rank, rich, roaring, robust, successful, thriving, vigorous |
| Antonyms: | ceasing, decreasing, failing, languishing, stunted, undeveloping |
| Main Entry: | flower |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | bloom, flourish |
| Synonyms: | batten, blossom, blow, burgeon, effloresce, mature, open, outbloom, prosper, thrive, unfold |
| Antonyms: | close, die, droop, fade, sag, shrink, shrivel |
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