Definition of "throve" [throve]

• A past tense of thrive. (verb)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "A guerilla warfare, such as throve in Spain, must surely be crushed in her open plains; and the diffident King returned"
• "And when you throve, you looked about you and saw the beauty of the world and fancied yet greater beauty."
• "Cycads throve so spectacularly in the Jurassic, comprising perhaps 20 percent of the flora on the face of the earth, that another name for the era is the Age of Cycads."