Thrive vs Subside - What's the difference?
thrive | subside |
To grow or increase stature; to grow vigorously or luxuriantly, to flourish.
:* 1819' (though spoken by a character in the 12-century): “It seems to me, reverend father,” said the knight, “that the small morsels which you eat, together with this holy, but somewhat thin beverage, have '''thriven with you marvellously.” — Walter Scott, ''Ivanhoe
To increase in wealth or success; to prosper, be profitable.
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To sink or fall to the bottom; to settle, as lees.
To tend downward; to become lower; to descend; to sink.
To fall into a state of quiet; to cease to rage; to be calmed; to settle down; to become tranquil; to abate.
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*:Long after his cigar burnt bitter, he sat with eyes fixed on the blaze. When the flames at last began to flicker and subside , his lids fluttered, then drooped?; but he had lost all reckoning of time when he opened them again to find Miss Erroll in furs and ball-gown kneeling on the hearth and heaping kindling on the coals,.
As verbs the difference between thrive and subside
is that thrive is to grow or increase stature; to grow vigorously or luxuriantly, to flourish while subside is to sink or fall to the bottom; to settle, as lees.thrive
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Verb
- Since expanding in June, the business has really thrived .
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