thrives
SayTHRYVZ/θɹaɪvz/
- 1Third-person singular simple present of thrive.
The coral reef thrives in warm, shallow water near the coast.
A small bakery thrives when its regular customers keep coming back.
Note
Both meanings of the verb travel in this one form. A coral reef thrives by growing vigorously, and a bakery thrives by prospering. Either way the verb is intransitive: something thrives, but it never thrives something. What follows it is therefore a setting or a condition rather than an object, as in thrives in warm water or thrives when customers return. With a plural subject the bare form returns: reefs thrive.
thrives is a form of thrive
thrive, verb: To grow vigorously and luxuriantly; to flourish and gain in stature. Full entry
- Spelling
- thrive → thrives: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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