Verb:

செழித்தோங்கு,

throve's Usage Examples:

The city throve on the freighting trade of the mines.

"But the gossip, not discouraged by Terence, lived and throve; it crops up in Cicero and Quintilian, and the ascription of the plays to Scipio had the honour to be accepted by Montaigne and rejected by Diderot.

Wade drove his military roads through the highlands, and, poor as the country still was, the city of Glasgow throve on the tobacco and sugar trade with America and the West Indies.

The wanders were rather discouraged by this gloomy report, but Dorothy said with a sigh:But the gossip, not discouraged by Terence, lived and throve; it crops up in Cicero and Quintilian, and the ascription of the plays to Scipio had the honour to be accepted by Montaigne and rejected by Diderot.

, 75) stated that all kinds of willows invariably throve best on the driest spots of some wet land planted by him.

The institute never throve out of France; there were attempts to introduce it into Spain and England: in England there were three houses - at Ambresbury (Amesbury in Wiltshire), Nuneaton, and Westwood in Worcestershire.

In April a single worm got oak-buds, on which it throve, and ultimately spun a cocoon whence a female moth issued, from which Guerin Meneville named and described the species.

It was seen in the 10th century, by the Arab traveller Ibn-Haukal, in the neighbourhood of Palermo, where it throve luxuriantly in the pools of the Papireto, a stream to which it lent its name.

And again- "And if a merchant throve, so that he fared thrice over the wide sea.

"The city throve on the freighting trade of the mines.

The document which defines their duties and privileges sets forth that every ceorl who throve so that he had fully five hides of land, and a helm, and a mail-shirt, and a sword ornamented with gold, was to be reckoned gesithcund.

Synonyms:

grow, expand, flourish, boom, revive, luxuriate,

Antonyms:

shrink, shorten, decrease, stay, contract,