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throve
- simple past of thrive
1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 122:The melons, pumpkins, and cucumbers throve well on a sandy patch in Doctor's Gully, which was the first site chosen for an experimental garden.
- (now nonstandard) past participle of thrive
1706, A Collection of State Tracts, Publiſh'd during the Reign of King William III, volume 2, page 134:But having now done with theſe Excreſcencies of Spain, from whence they pretend to have originally ſprung, let us ſee how thoſe which they lay claim to for their Anceſtors, have throve in their aversion to Induſtry.
1802, The Gentleman's Magazine, volume 71, page 426:I have found my Po-poplars, even in this dry year, to have throve the better for a pretty free trimming.
2001, Hamlet Bareh, The Economy of Meghalaya: Tradition to Transition, Spectrum Publications, page 90:Areca-nuts and betel-vines in inconsiderable quantities seem to have throve.
References
- “throve”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 2000, →ISBN.
- “throve”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
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