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verb

Thrive v. i. (past throve or thrived; past part. thriven or thrived; pres. part. thriving)

To prosper by industry, economy, and good management of property; to increase in goods and estate; as, a farmer thrives by good husbandry. "Diligence and humility is the way to thrive in the riches of the understanding, as well as in gold."

To prosper in any business; to have increase or success. "They by vices thrive." "O son, why sit we here, each other viewing Idly, while Satan, our great author, thrives?" "And so she throve and prospered."

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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Etymology of 'Thriving'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Thriving" Quotes from Famous Books

... extraordinary phenomena in the moral world, which, I dare say, has happened in the course of this half century. We have had a party of Presbytery relief, as they call themselves, for some time in this country. A pretty thriving society of them has been in the burgh of Irvine for some years past, till about two years ago a Mrs. Buchan from Glasgow came among them, and began to spread some fanatical notions of religion among them, and in a short time made many converts; and among others their preacher, Mr. Whyte, ...

— The Letters of Robert Burns • Robert Burns

... several phases of change since this was written—for better and for worse. It is a thriving place in these later days, and new farming conditions have improved the country roundabout. But it was a desert outpost then, a catch-all for the human drift which every whirlwind of discovery sweeps along. Gold and silver hunting and mine speculations were ...

— Mark Twain, A Biography, 1835-1910, Complete - The Personal And Literary Life Of Samuel Langhorne Clemens • Albert Bigelow Paine

... it was one of the last to be burned. The first session of the territorial legislature of Minnesota was held in the dining room of this old hotel building, and for a number of years the hotel did a thriving business. As the city grew it was made over into a large boarding house, and before the war Mrs. Corbett was manager of the place. It was afterward kept by Mrs. Ferguson, George Pulford and Ben Ferris, the latter being in possession of it when it was destroyed by fire. ...

— Reminiscences of Pioneer Days in St. Paul • Frank Moore

... hills they saw the roof of the forest dipping down to the river shores and stretching far to the east and west and broken, here and there, by small clearings. Soon they could see the smoke and spires of the thriving village of Utica. ...

— The Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories • Various

... was getting her first taste of romance and tragedy and she was thriving on the excitement. When she was not watching the romance in the woods with Mary-Clare and Noreen, she was actively engaged in tragedy. She was searching for the lost letters and she did not mince matters in her ...

— At the Crossroads • Harriet T. Comstock

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