Verb

• S: (v) boom, thrive, flourish, expand (grow vigorously) "The deer population in this town is thriving"; "business is booming"
• S: (v) thrive, prosper, fly high, flourish (make steady progress; be at the high point in one's career or reach a high point in historical significance or importance) "The new student is thriving"
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• S: (v) change state, turn (undergo a transformation or a change of position or action) "We turned from Socialism to Capitalism"; "The people turned against the President when he stole the election"
• S: (v) wake up, awake, arouse, awaken, wake, come alive, waken (stop sleeping) "She woke up to the sound of the alarm clock"
• S: (v) zonk out, pass out, black out (lose consciousness due to a sudden trauma, for example)
• S: (v) come to, revive, resuscitate (return to consciousness) "The patient came to quickly"; "She revived after the doctor gave her an injection"
• S: (v) tense, tense up (become tense, nervous, or uneasy) "He tensed up when he saw his opponent enter the room"
• S: (v) relax, loosen up, unbend, unwind, decompress, slow down (become less tense, rest, or take one's ease) "He relaxed in the hot tub"; "Let's all relax after a hard day's work"
• S: (v) reduce, melt off, slim, slenderize, thin, slim down (take off weight)
• S: (v) gain, put on (increase (one's body weight)) "She gained 20 pounds when she stopped exercising"
• S: (v) dress, clothe, enclothe, garb, raiment, tog, garment, habilitate, fit out, apparel (provide with clothes or put clothes on) "Parents must feed and dress their child"
• S: (v) cross-fertilize, cross-fertilise (undergo cross-fertilization; become fertile)
• S: (v) conceive (become pregnant; undergo conception) "She cannot conceive"; "My daughter was conceived in Christmas Day"
• S: (v) secularize, secularise (make secular and draw away from a religious orientation) "Ataturk secularized Turkey"
• S: (v) citrate (cause to form a salt or ester of citric acid)
• S: (v) equilibrate (bring to a chemical stasis or equilibrium)
• S: (v) fall (pass suddenly and passively into a state of body or mind) "fall into a trap"; "She fell ill"; "They fell out of favor"; "Fall in love"; "fall asleep"; "fall prey to an imposter"; "fall into a strange way of thinking"; "she fell to pieces after she lost her work"
• S: (v) become, go, get (enter or assume a certain state or condition) "He became annoyed when he heard the bad news"; "It must be getting more serious"; "her face went red with anger"; "She went into ecstasy"; "Get going!"
• S: (v) worsen, decline (grow worse) "Conditions in the slum worsened"
• S: (v) better, improve, ameliorate, meliorate (get better) "The weather improved toward evening"
• S: (v) disengage (become free) "in neutral, the gears disengage"
• S: (v) overgrow (become overgrown) "The patio overgrew with ivy"
• S: (v) concentrate (make denser, stronger, or purer) "concentrate juice"
• S: (v) break (crack; of the male voice in puberty) "his voice is breaking--he should no longer sing in the choir"
• S: (v) acidify, acetify (turn acidic) "the solution acetified"
• S: (v) alkalize, alkalise, alkalify, basify (turn basic and less acidic) "the solution alkalized"
• S: (v) ionize, ionise (convert into ions)
• S: (v) ossify (become bony) "The tissue ossified"
• S: (v) catalyze, catalyse (change by catalysis or cause to catalyze)
• S: (v) get worse, relapse (deteriorate in health) "he relapsed"
• S: (v) fluctuate (be unstable) "The stock market fluctuates"
• S: (v) explode, burst forth, break loose (be unleashed; emerge with violence or noise) "His anger exploded"
• S: (v) die, decease, perish, go, exit, pass away, expire, pass, kick the bucket, cash in one's chips, buy the farm, conk, give-up the ghost, drop dead, pop off, choke, croak, snuff it (pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life) "She died from cancer"; "The children perished in the fire"; "The patient went peacefully"; "The old guy kicked the bucket at the age of 102"
• S: (v) be born (come into existence through birth) "She was born on a farm"
• S: (v) cloud over (become overcast) "the sky clouded over"
• S: (v) carbonize, carbonise (turn into carbon, as by burning) "carbonize coal"
• S: (v) cool, chill, cool down (loose heat) "The air cooled considerably after the thunderstorm"
• S: (v) heat, hot up, heat up (gain heat or get hot) "The room heated up quickly"
• S: (v) carbonize, carbonise, carburize, carburise (unite with carbon) "carburize metal"
• S: (v) freeze (change to ice) "The water in the bowl froze"
• S: (v) boil (come to the boiling point and change from a liquid to vapor) "Water boils at 100 degrees Celsius"
• S: (v) burn, combust (undergo combustion) "Maple wood burns well"
• S: (v) emaciate (grow weak and thin or waste away physically) "She emaciated during the chemotherapy"
• S: (v) Frenchify (become French in appearance or character) "This restaurant has Frenchified"
• S: (v) thin (lose thickness; become thin or thinner)
• S: (v) thicken, inspissate (become thick or thicker) "The sauce thickened"; "The egg yolk will inspissate"
• S: (v) solvate (undergo solvation or convert into a solvate)
• S: (v) react (undergo a chemical reaction; react with another substance under certain conditions) "The hydrogen and the oxygen react"
• S: (v) dissolve, fade out, fade away (become weaker) "The sound faded out"
• S: (v) empty, discharge (become empty or void of its content) "The room emptied"
• S: (v) fill, fill up (become full) "The pool slowly filled with water"; "The theater filled up slowly"
• S: (v) homogenize, homogenise (become homogeneous or similar, as by mixing) "The two liquids homogenized in the blender"
• S: (v) homogenize, homogenise (break up the fat globules of) "homogenized milk"
• S: (v) curdle, clabber, clot (turn into curds) "curdled milk"
• S: (v) clot, coagulate (change from a liquid to a thickened or solid state) "coagulated blood"
• S: (v) sour, turn, ferment, work (go sour or spoil) "The milk has soured"; "The wine worked"; "The cream has turned--we have to throw it out"
• S: (v) integrate (become one; become integrated) "The students at this school integrate immediately, despite their different backgrounds"
• S: (v) precipitate (separate as a fine suspension of solid particles)
• S: (v) calcify (turn into lime; become calcified) "The rock calcified over the centuries"
• S: (v) coke (become coke) "petroleum oils coke after distillation"
• S: (v) carnify (become muscular or fleshy)
• S: (v) chondrify (turn into cartilage) "The tissue chondrifies"
• S: (v) emulsify (form into or become an emulsion) "The solution emulsified"
• S: (v) denitrify (remove nitrogen from) "Denitrify the soil"
• S: (v) esterify (change (a compound) into an ester)
• S: (v) etherify (change into an ether) "etherify an alcohol"
• S: (v) thrombose (become blocked by a thrombus) "the blood vessel thrombosed"
• S: (v) open, open up (become open) "The door opened"
• S: (v) close, shut (become closed) "The windows closed with a loud bang"
• S: (v) sorb, take up (take up a liquid or a gas either by adsorption or by absorption)
• S: (v) calm, calm down, cool off, chill out, simmer down, settle down, cool it (become quiet or calm, especially after a state of agitation) "After the fight both men need to cool off."; "It took a while after the baby was born for things to settle down again."
• S: (v) thrive, prosper, fly high, flourish (make steady progress; be at the high point in one's career or reach a high point in historical significance or importance) "The new student is thriving"
• S: (v) emancipate, liberate (give equal rights to; of women and minorities)
• S: (v) get into, tangle with (get involved in or with)
• S: (v) liquefy (become liquid) "The garden air overnight liquefied into a morning dew"
• S: (v) erupt, ignite, catch fire, take fire, combust, conflagrate (start to burn or burst into flames) "Marsh gases ignited suddenly"; "The oily rags combusted spontaneously"
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Adjective

• S: (adj) booming, flourishing, palmy, prospering, prosperous, roaring, thriving (very lively and profitable) "flourishing businesses"; "a palmy time for stockbrokers"; "a prosperous new business"; "doing a roaring trade"; "a thriving tourist center"; "did a thriving business in orchids"
• similar to
• derivationally related form
• W: (n) prosperity [Related to: prosperous] (an economic state of growth with rising profits and full employment)
• antonym