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Definition of thrive : 1. To increase in bulk or stature; to grow vigorously or luxuriantly, as a plant; to flourish; as, young cattle thrive in rich pastures; trees thrive in a good soil.
2. To prosper by industry, economy, and good management of property; to increase in goods and estate; as, a farmer thrives by good husbandry.
3. To prosper in any business; to have increase or success.

Synonyms:

inflate, flesh out, attain, mushroom, win out, thunder, enlarge, increase, fly high, wax, boom, die, dilate, radiate, achieve, expatiate, blossom, arrive, nail, shine, elaborate, grow, make progress, spread out, blow up, go, wither, be a roaring success, be/get there, expound, smash, lucubrate, expand, bloom, amplify, make it, shoot up, score, win, wave, get ahead, blast, batten, exposit, extend, boom out, brandish, Fligh High, fail, advance, burgeon, din, rise, prevail

luxuriate, prosper, succeed, progress, flourish

Usage examples:

• All classes of the natives of Ceylon are full of superstitions, and support hundreds of demon- priests, who thrive upon the foolishness and fears of the masses. - "The Pearl of India", Maturin M. Ballou.
• But there has not yet been invented any government in which a people would thrive who were ignorant and vicious. - "The Complete Essays of C. D. Warner", Charles Dudley Warner.
• They make an atmosphere about them in which spiritual things can thrive, and out of their school often come men who do greater things, better they cannot do, than they. - "Malcolm", George MacDonald.