Verb
The word is derived from thrive
of Thrive
imp. of Thrive.
Source: Webster's dictionaryGod 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