thriveverb [ I ]
uk/θraɪv/us/θraɪv/thrived or US also throve, thrived or US also thrivenC1 to grow, develop, or be successful:
His business thrived in the years before the war.
She seems to thrive on stress.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Succeeding, achieving and fulfilling
- accomplish
- achieve
- acquit
- actualize
- attain
- bear
- go (off) without a hitch idiom
- go places idiom
- go the whole hog idiom
- grade
- groove
- have the last laugh idiom
- kill
- rise
- sew sth up
- somewhere
- stand out
- streak ahead
- succeed
- sunset
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thriving
adjective uk/ˈθraɪ.vɪŋ/us/ˈθraɪ.vɪŋ/
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a thriving economy