Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To make steady progress; prosper.
- v. To grow vigorously; flourish: "the wild deer that throve here” ( Tom Clancy).
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To prosper; flourish; be fortunate or successful.
- To increase in goods and estate; grow rich or richer; keep on increasing one's acquisitions.
- To grow vigorously or luxuriantly; flourish.
Wiktionary
- v. To grow or increase in bulk or stature; to grow vigorously or luxuriantly, to flourish.
- v. To increase in wealth or success; to prosper, be profitable.
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To prosper by industry, economy, and good management of property; to increase in goods and estate.
- v. To prosper in any business; to have increase or success.
- v. To increase in bulk or stature; to grow vigorously or luxuriantly, as a plant; to flourish.
WordNet 3.0
- v. grow vigorously
- v. make steady progress; be at the high point in one's career or reach a high point in historical significance or importance
Etymologies
- Middle English thriven, from Old Norse thrīfask, reflexive of thrīfa, to seize.
Examples
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Islanders' Danis, Capitals' Ovechkin thrive in the clutch in February
“Islanders 'Danis, Capitals' Ovechkin thrive in the clutch in February”
Islanders' Danis, Capitals' Ovechkin thrive in the clutch in February
“Consciously and systematically denying others the right to thrive is the most serious sin one can commit as a human being.”
“Unfortunately, the hands off approach that allowed your troop (and mine) to thrive is a thing of the past.”
“As long as punters keep punting, the greedy will continue to thrive from the fruits of their labor.”
“It wants the FCC to adopt rules specifying that the basic open framework that has allowed the Internet to thrive is preserved.”
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“And anyone who questions that BN’s political position should thrive is an anti-Semite.”
“Those that adapt and offer good products will thrive from the increased exposure and ancillary revenue streams (even if they’re receiving less from traditional advertising); those that don’t, will cry foul and dwindle away.”
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“But walking through the wood every day, sometimes with a proper woodsman in tow, I've come to realise that the way for it to thrive is to do a fairly thorough thinning: to let the light in, get rid of cankered trunks, really allow strong, new growth to come through.”
“After all, during recessions, discretionary products suffer while discount products and companies thrive, which is why Wal-Mart has been doing well.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘thrive’.
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Life Verbs
Positive words
thrive, prosper, rejuvenate, dawn, anew, zest, flourish, nourish, rise, soar, expand, stretch and 6 more...
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Viking Words
From http://www.vikingrune.com/2009/10/viking-words-in-english/
anger, birth, bleak, bloom, call, cast, crawl, crook, die, fellow, gear, get and 36 more...
bilby Probably more accurate to say a high protein diet is acidic due to the deamination process within the body. Dec 21, 2010
Kristianto2010 Cancer cells thrive in an acid environment. A meat-based diet is acidic and it is best to eat fish, and a little other meat, like chicken. Meat also contains livestock antibiotics, growth hormones and parasites, which are all harmful, especially to people with cancer.
Dec 21, 2010