flourish vs slump

flourish

verb
  • To prosper or fare well. 

  • 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 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. 

noun
  • 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. 

slump

verb
  • To decline or fall off in activity or performance. 

  • To cause to collapse; to hit hard; to render unsconscious; to kill. 

  • To collapse heavily or helplessly. 

  • To lump; to throw together messily. 

  • To fall or sink suddenly through or in, when walking on a surface, as on thawing snow or ice, a bog, etc. 

  • To slouch or droop. 

noun
  • A period when a person goes without the expected amount of sex or dating. 

  • A measure of the fluidity of freshly mixed concrete, based on how much the concrete formed in a standard slump cone sags when the cone is removed. 

  • The gross amount; the mass; the lump. 

  • A boggy place. 

  • A heavy or helpless collapse; a slouching or drooping posture; a period of poor activity or performance, especially an extended period. 

  • The noise made by anything falling into a hole, or into a soft, miry place. 

  • A cobbler-like dessert cooked on a stove. 

How often have the words flourish and slump occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )