THRIVE (thriven, throve)

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Irregular inflected forms: thriven    , throve   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does thrive mean? 

• THRIVE (verb)
  The verb THRIVE has 2 senses:

1. grow vigorously

2. make steady progress; be at the high point in one's career or reach a high point in historical significance or importance

  Familiarity information: THRIVE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• THRIVE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they thrive    ... he / she / it thrives   
Past simple: thrived    / throve   
Past participle: thrived    / thriven   
-ing form: thriving   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Grow vigorously

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

boom; expand; flourish; thrive

Context example:

business is booming

Hypernyms (to "thrive" is one way to...):

grow (become larger, greater, or bigger; expand or gain)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "thrive"):

revive (be brought back to life, consciousness, or strength)

luxuriate (thrive profusely or flourish extensively)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Sentence example:

The business is going to thrive

Sense 2

Meaning:

Make steady progress; be at the high point in one's career or reach a high point in historical significance or importance

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Synonyms:

flourish; fly high; prosper; thrive

Context example:

The new student is thriving

Hypernyms (to "thrive" is one way to...):

change state; turn (undergo a transformation or a change of position or action)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s

 Context examples 

We haven't fared nohows, but fared to thrive. We've allus thrived.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

He was a great deal too full of the market to think of any thing else—which is just as it should be, for a thriving man.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Combined with nutrients like nitrogen and phosphorus, it helps trees grow and thrive.

(Study Suggests Trees' Potential to Slow Global Warming in Next 100 Years, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

In him some vital principle have in strange way found their utmost; and as his body keep strong and grow and thrive, so his brain grow too.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

The researchers found that coccolithophores both struggle and thrive in unexpected places throughout the Atlantic Ocean.

(Study reveals changing patterns in globally important algae, National Science Foundation)

This specific bacterial strain thrives in these circumstances.

(Human Gut Microbe Could Make Processed Foods Healthier, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Signs and symptoms include respiratory distress, recurrent pulmonary infections, dyspnea, and failure to thrive.

(Congenital Cystic Adenomatoid Malformation of the Lung, NCI Thesaurus)

Yes, Miss: my wife is very hearty, thank you; she brought me another little one about two months since—we have three now—and both mother and child are thriving.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The street was small and what is called quiet, but it drove a thriving trade on the weekdays.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Still others - California's Lake Tahoe, for example - support thriving tourism industries.

(Ancient lakes: eyes into the past, and the future, National Science Foundation)