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
Honour and loyalty would have thriven without the chivalrous poets, as they had thriven before them in every nation on earth.
From Medieval English Literature Home University of Modern Knowledge #43 by W. P. (William Paton) Ker
Fishing is always in reach, and of late years golf has thriven apace.
From Climbing in The British Isles, Vol. II Wales and Ireland by H. C. Hart
Taganrok has thriven rapidly, as Peter the Great foresaw it would do, and has become one of the most commercial towns of Southern Russia.
From Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. by Xavier Hommaire de Hell
But the cloth trade, by which Chippinge had once thriven, had been revived, and the town was not quite fallen.
From Chippinge Borough by Stanley J. Weyman
