dry up vs thrive

dry up

verb
  • To manually dry dishes. 

  • To cause to become dry. 

  • To deprive someone of (something vital). 

  • To cease to exist; to disappear 

  • To become dry (often of weather); to lose water. 

  • When our money dried up, we had to get proper jobs. 

  • To stop talking; to forget what one was going to say. 

thrive

verb
  • To increase in wealth or success; to prosper, be profitable. 

  • To grow or increase stature; to grow vigorously or luxuriantly, to flourish. 

How often have the words dry up and thrive occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )