to grow or develop successfully
to flourish (He tried journalism, but flourished as a novelist.)
to become gradually damaged, worse, or less;
to decay (Pollution has decayed the surface of the stonework on the front of the cathedral.)
used to refer to, or relating to, the people who originally lived in a place, rather than people who moved there from somewhere else
indigenous (The indigenous population has long suffered exclusion and profound injustice.)