thriven
USTHRIV-uhn/ˈθɹɪ.vən/
- 1Past participle of thrive.
The small bakery has thriven under its new owners.
Few colonies had thriven so quickly in such harsh conditions.
Note
An -en participle of a verb that never takes an object, so it follows have rather than be: cattle have thriven, never were thriven. It carries both halves of thrive, living things growing vigorously, as with Harriet Beecher Stowe's Brahmin cattle in Palmetto-Leaves (1873), and ventures prospering. Beside the regular thrived, it now reads as older or literary.
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