thrive

[US]/θraɪv/
[UK]/θraɪv/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

vi. to prosper; to grow vigorously.

Phrases & Collocations

thrive on

Example Sentences

a parasite that thrives in impure water.

education groups thrive on organization.

Industry thrives in the south.

Children thrive on fresh air and good food.

few creatures are able to thrive in this grim and hostile land.

A business can not thrive without good management.

Babies thrive on their mother's milk.

He that will thrive, must rise at five.

He thrived on the adulation of his henchmen.

Few plants or animals thrive in the desert.

These animals thrive on the leaves of certain trees.

He's the sort of person who thrives on hard work.

some plants thrived in last year's tropical summer heat.

He that by the plough would thrive himself must either hold or drive.

Young spittlebugs cannot survive under dry conditions and thrive in moist thatchy turf.

Where private gunrunner continue to thrive, the world's biggest arms suppliers are: the U.S., U.K., Russia, France and China.

Two or three grave sedate-looking persons shook their heads, and left the inn, hinting, that if Gile Gosling wished to continue to thrive, he should turn his thriftless godless nephew adrift again.

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