thrive
verb (used without object)
to prosper; be fortunate or successful.
thriven
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past participleof thrive.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
Example Sentences
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In England, gorillas have recently lived and thriven amazingly because the keepers now put plate glass between them and the staring crowds.
From Time Magazine Archive
They have loved the fields amidst which they have grown and thriven.
From On the cattle plague: or, Contagious typhus in horned cattle. Its history, origin, description, and treatment by Honor? Bourguignon
HE that would thrive, Must rise at five; He that hath thriven, May lie till seven; And he that by the plough would thrive, Himself must either hold or drive.
From The Big Book of Nursery Rhymes by Various
They seem not to have thriven on city air.”
From In Wild Rose Time by Amanda M. Douglas
The smile of a man, contented with himself and with the world, was on his lips; and his belly had thriven well, like the household of an industrious man.
From Ekkehard. Vol. I (of II) A Tale of the Tenth Century by Joseph Victor von Scheffel
