How to pronounce "flourished"

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Transcriber: Translate TED Reviewer: Rhonda Jacobs

Why is 1.5 degrees such a big deal?

Because to warm our entire planet up by 1.5 degrees Celsius

requires a lot of heat.

All this extra heat melts glaciers, which raise sea levels.

If the ice sheets of Antarctica and Greenland melt completely,

millions of people's homes will be under water.

The extra heat also intensifies weather,

making wet places wetter, dry places drier

and increasing the ferocity of storms.

That 1.5-degree increase also won't be distributed evenly.

The coldest nights in the Arctic might get 10 degrees warmer.

The warmest days in Mumbai might get five degrees hotter.

Over the past 10,000 years, we've been lucky.

Earth's climate was stable and our civilizations flourished.

But as our climate gets more unstable, so will our economies and our societies.

We'll all suffer,

and the vulnerable will be hit hardest,

unless we act now.

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Phonetic Breakdown of "flourished"

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flour-ished

2 syllables

IPA Phonetic Pronunciation:

F L ER1 IH0 SH T

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Definition of "flourished"

Verb

To thrive or grow well.

Example: "The barley flourished in the warm weather."
To prosper or fare well.

Example: "The cooperation flourished as the customers rushed in the business."
To be in a period of greatest influence.

Example: "His writing flourished before the war."
To develop; to make thrive; to expand.
To make bold, sweeping movements with.

Example: "They flourished the banner as they stormed the palace."
To make bold and sweeping, fanciful, or wanton movements, by way of ornament, parade, bravado, etc.; to play with fantastic and irregular motion.
To use florid language; to indulge in rhetorical figures and lofty expressions.
To make ornamental strokes with the pen; to write graceful, decorative figures.
To adorn with beautiful figures or rhetoric; to ornament with anything showy; to embellish.
To execute an irregular or fanciful strain of music, by way of ornament or prelude.
To boast; to vaunt; to brag.

Adjective

Decorated with flourishes.

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