To thrive or grow well.
To make bold and sweeping, fanciful, or wanton movements, by way of ornament, parade, bravado, etc.; to play with fantastic and irregular motion.
To make bold, sweeping movements with.
To be in a period of greatest influence.
To prosper or fare well.
To adorn with beautiful figures or rhetoric; to ornament with anything showy; to embellish.
To use florid language; to indulge in rhetorical figures and lofty expressions.
To execute an irregular or fanciful strain of music, by way of ornament or prelude.
To make ornamental strokes with the pen; to write graceful, decorative figures.
To develop; to make thrive; to expand.
A ceremonious passage such as a fanfare.
An ornamentation.
A dramatic gesture such as the waving of a flag.
A decorative embellishment on a building.
To succeed in surviving, in living through something.
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see make, it.
To have sexual intercourse; do it.
To succeed in doing something, for example in reaching a place, going somewhere, attending an event, arriving in time for something, adding to one's schedule or itinerary, or in getting where one wants to be in one's life or career, which sometimes means becoming or wanting to become successful (succeed in a big way) or famous.