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[ verb ] grow stronger
Examples "The economy was booming" Used in print (The Horseman and Fair World, 84:46...)He has thrived on all he has gone_through and looks the makings of a good little race_horse . (Anne McCaffrey, "The Ship Who Sang," 7th...)One of the babies died in the initial transferral but of Helva 's `` class '' , seventeen thrived in the metal shells . (Mary Savage, Just for Tonight....)Red_man or white_man , pacifist or killer , the forest would accept them all - knowing that it could thrive equally well on slaughter and beneficence ; knowing that its ageless mass would always dwarf the short span of time allotted to any man . |
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[ verb ] gain in wealth
Synonyms Used in print (The Nation, 193: 16...)As we know , the Soviet peasant today still very largely thrives on being able to sell the produce grown on his private plot ; and it is still very far from certain how valid the party 's claim is that in `` a growing number of kolkhozes '' the peasants are finding it more profitable , to surrender their private plots to the kolkhoz and to let the latter be turned_into something increasingly like a state farm . Related terms |
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