- past tense form of thrive.
throve
Americanverb
verb
Example Sentences
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Most of what we could call our charismatic megaflora was hauled in here from elsewhere, and it throve.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 29, 2021
Japan’s economy wilted while Germany’s throve, adding several hundred thousand clean-energy jobs—part of the energy transition’s net macroeconomic benefit.
From Forbes • Jun. 28, 2014
It’s a reminder, however, that even in the most horrific of circumstances, something remarkable more than survived; it throve and grew and eventually reached around the Earth.
From Salon • Dec. 26, 2013
The U.S. people, high & low, throve on hope, withered on gloom.
From Time Magazine Archive
There they throve remarkably, attracting the attention of other nations, to whom they were from time to time exported, and at present may be found in almost every part of the world.
From A Treatise on Sheep: The Best Means for their Improvement, General Management, and the Treatment of their Diseases. by Blacklock, Ambrose
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