Thrive
[θraɪv]
Definition
(verb.) make steady progress; be at the high point in one's career or reach a high point in historical significance or importance; 'The new student is thriving'.
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Definition
(v. i.) To prosper by industry, economy, and good management of property; to increase in goods and estate; as, a farmer thrives by good husbandry.
(v. i.) To prosper in any business; to have increase or success.
(v. i.) To increase in bulk or stature; to grow vigorously or luxuriantly, as a plant; to flourish; as, young cattle thrive in rich pastures; trees thrive in a good soil.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. n. [1]. Prosper, succeed, get on, come on, become wealthy, get rich.[2]. Grow, increase, advance, flourish, improve, make improvement.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Prosper, increase, flourish, grow, succeed, fatten, luxuriate
ANT:Decay, lade, wane, wither, decline, waste, languish, diminish, droop, pine
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Definition
v.i. to prosper: to increase in goods: to be successful: to grow: to flourish:—pa.t. thrōve and thrīved; pa.p. thriv′en.—adj. Thrive′less thriftless.—n. Thrī′ver one who succeeds.—p.adj. Thrī′ving flourishing successful.—adv. Thrī′vingly in a thriving or prosperous manner.—n. Thrī′vingness.
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Examples
- We haven't fared nohows, but fared to thrive. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- By swaggering could I never thrive, For the rain it raineth every day. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- We have an English proverb that says, He that would thrive Must ask his wife. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- The redwoods thrive in moisture--it is taken into the roots, the foliage and the bark. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- And again, _He that by the plough would thrive, Himself must either hold or drive. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- We've worked as we ought to 't, and maybe we lived a leetle hard at first or so, but we have allus thrived. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- All thrived exceedingly well considering the amount of food eaten. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- We've allus thrived. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- And a steady lad he was, and a kind master he had to lend him a hand, and well he worked his own way forward to be rich and thriving. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- The remainder may be no more than sufficient to supply the increasing demand of all thriving countries. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Thirty or forty years ago, before losses and chancery suits came upon it, it was a thriving place; but now it is a desolate island indeed. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- If so, I must be allowed to re-introduce that young lady as a thriving pupil of Madame Beck's; for such she was. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- In this form shoemaking has become a thriving industry in New England and in some other parts of the United States. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Thus rumour thrives in the capital, and will not go down into Lincolnshire. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Liberty, it seems, thrives best in the woods. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- The tree thrives well, beyond a doubt, madam, replied Dr. Grant. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- A remarkable fact in this connection is that all animal life lives and thrives by eating some other thing that is or has been alive, or is the product of organic growth. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- But the propagandists do it nevertheless, and their propaganda thrives upon it. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Meanwhile, Oliver gradually throve and prospered under the united care of Mrs. Maylie, Rose, and the kind-hearted Mr. Losberne. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- They throve, and by degrees I saw my dear girl pass into my country garden and walk there with her infant in her arms. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- And still the forced spirit which the whelp had plucked up, throve with him. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- Such things as could be said for him were said,--how he had taken to industrious habits, and had thriven lawfully and reputably. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
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