throve

Verb

The word is derived from thrive

Meaning

of Thrive

imp. of Thrive.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Examples

God gives us love. Something to love He lends us but when love is grown To ripeness, that on which it throve Falls off, and love is left alone. Alfred, Lord Tennyson

It was a hard life, but, physically, they throve on it, the men standing up well to the hard labour of the fields and the women, in addition to their washing, scrubbing and cooking and nursing, bearing a child almost annually. Flora Thompson

Where markets were most highly developed, as under the mercantile system, they throve under the control of a centralized administration which fostered autarchy both in the household of the peasantry and in respect to national life. Regulation and markets, in effect, grew up together. Karl Polanyi

I never saw an oft-removed tree, nor yet an oft-removed family, that throve so well as one that settled be. French Proverb

Close letter words and terms

throughway throuple throupling throw throw a bone to throw a curve