thrive
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English thryven, thriven, from Old Norse þrífa (“to seize, grasp, take hold, prosper”), from Proto-Germanic *þrībaną (“to seize, prosper”), from Proto-Indo-European *trep-, *terp- (“to satisfy, enjoy”). Cognate with Swedish trivas, Danish trives, Norwegian Bokmål trives.
Inflected forms:
form: thrives
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: thriving
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: throve
pos: verb
tags: past
form: thrived
pos: verb
tags: past
form: thriven
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: thrived
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
Senses:
gloss: To grow or increase stature; to grow vigorously or luxuriantly; to enjoy a state of excellent health and well-being; to flourish.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Not all animals thrive well in captivity.
to thrive upon hard work
“It seems to me, reverend father,” said the knight, “that the small morsels which you eat, together with this holy, but somewhat thin beverage, have thriven with you marvellously.”
So, on I went. I think I never saw / Such starved ignoble nature; nothing throve: / For flowers - as well expect a cedar grove!
Dwarves had not passed that way for many years, but Gandalf had, and he knew how evil and danger had grown and thriven in the Wild, since the dragons had driven men from the lands, and the goblins had spread in secret after the battle of the Mines of Moria.
The growing things jumbled themselves together into a dense thicket; so tensely earnest were things about growing in Skedans that everything linked with everything else, hurrying to grow to the limit of its own capacity; weeds and weaklings alike throve in the rich moistness.
Despite a thriving global computer security industry that is projected to reach $79 billion in revenues next year, and the fact that in 2002 Microsoft itself began an intense corporatewide effort to improve the security of its software, Internet security has continued to deteriorate globally.
gloss: To increase in wealth or success; to prosper, be profitable.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Since expanding in June, the business has really thrived.
[…] Deliver me the key.
Here do I choose, and thrive I as I may!
On the Chickahominy, the Hazelwood brothers' fish house at Hicks Island and the Menzel brothers' fish house near the old shipyard thrived by serving local and distant markets. As late as 1977, a Publick Observer article boasted, "If you are served turtle soup in Atlanta or catfish in Ft. Wayne, Ind., chances are good that the main ingredients came from the waters of the James or the Chickahominy."
Though they obviously realized that these episodes were part of something wonderful and important and lasting, the writers and producers couldn’t have imagined that 20 years later “Treehouse Of Horror” wouldn’t just survive; it’d thrive as one of the most talked-about and watched episodes of every season of The Simpsons.
And, reader, the further you take this analogy the more beautifully it works: my anxiety disorder thrives on irrational scaremongery and paranoia, it often demands booze (but should not be given alcohol because it only makes it worse) and just when you think you have got rid of it for good, it pops up again.
Derived words: failure to thrive
thrift
thrivable
thriver
unthrive
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: ظَهَرَ
roman: ẓahara
lang: Bulgarian
word: раста буйно
roman: rasta bujno
lang: Catalan
word: créixer
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 繁榮 /繁荣
roman: fánróng
lang: Czech
word: prospívat
lang: Czech
word: prosperovat
lang: Czech
word: růst
lang: Czech
word: vzkvétat
lang: Danish
word: trives
lang: Dutch
word: gedijen
lang: Faroese
word: ærast
lang: Finnish
word: viihtyä
lang: French
word: 1&2: croître
lang: French
word: s'épanouir
lang: French
word: 2:prospérer
lang: German
word: gedeihen
lang: German
word: prosperieren
lang: Ancient Greek
word: θάλλω
roman: thállō
lang: Hebrew
word: שִֹגְשֵֹג
roman: sigség
lang: Hindi
word: फलना
roman: phalnā
lang: Hungarian
word: jól megvan
lang: Italian
word: prosperare
lang: Japanese
word: 繁栄する
roman: han'ei suru
lang: Latin
word: vigeō
lang: Māori
word: ngaruru
lang: Māori
word: whakapuāwai
lang: Middle English
word: thryven
lang: Norwegian
word: blomstre
lang: Persian
word: شکوفیدن
roman: šekufidan
lang: Persian
word: شکفتن
roman: šekoftan
lang: Portuguese
word: prosperar
lang: Portuguese
word: desenvolver-se
lang: Portuguese
word: crescer
lang: Russian
word: расцветать
roman: rascvetatʹ
lang: Russian
word: цвести
roman: cvesti
lang: Russian
word: разрастаться
roman: razrastatʹsja
lang: Russian
word: буйно расти
roman: bujno rasti
lang: Russian
word: пышно расти
roman: pyšno rasti
lang: Scots
word: dae guid
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: bujati
lang: Spanish
word: prosperar
lang: Spanish
word: crecer
lang: Spanish
word: medrar
lang: Swedish
word: frodas
lang: Turkish
word: gelişmek
lang: Turkish
word: inkişaf etmek