to thrive on
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4.1
- phrasal verb
- /θraɪv ɑn/
:
nutrirse de
- I am one who really has always thrived on productivity.
- thrive on experience
- thrive on art
- thrive on culture
And in fact, many carnivores thrive on a fiber free diet.
- And in fact, many carnivores thrive on a fiber free diet.
- I, I thrive on being active and busy.
- And certain kind of relationships thrive on creating excitement.
- Our brain loves and thrives on face to face real life interactions.
- We do what we can to let those people thrive on their own terms and in their own way.
- They were both violent people and they thrived on that.
- Ecosystems thrive on harmony and balance.
- Put simply, children thrive on high expectations.
- What can it actually live and thrive on?
- Humans don't mind hardship, In fact, they thrive on it.
- And he looks at me and I said, this is for the, this is the reason venture capital thrives on market disruptions.
- But you have to realize that relationships thrive on interdependence, not independence, OK?
- Because they wanted to kill that spirit of communality that the Indigenous people thrived on.
- She couldn't get out of the bed and she saw how I was surviving and thriving on a vegan diet.
Examples
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Put simply, children thrive on high expectations.
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As professionals, we believe that businesses and financial markets thrive on trust.
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I, I thrive on being active and busy.
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Relationships really thrive on really being in touch with people.
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It's just I thrive on the pressure.
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My guys thrive on challenge.
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And they kind of thrive on that unpredictability.
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The Popular Culture Association's annual conventions thrive on ever larger numbers of participants and ever greater diversity.
Academic text (1990) -
Ecosystems thrive on harmony and balance.
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I thrive on challenges because they motivate me to do my best work.
Synonyms
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3.7
To take energy from something, like food or attention
Antonyms
How Energized
- Informal
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The verb 'thrive' (to succeed or develop well) combined with the prepositional sense of 'on' indicating source or cause yields a clear compositional meaning: to flourish because of something. This cause/source relation is a common and predictable pattern cross-linguistically, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
Thrive on paints a picture of a plant that seems to thrive because it lives on a certain thing, like sunlight or even little care. So when we say someone 'thrives on' pressure or praise, we mean that the pressure or praise helps them 'grow' or 'get energy'.