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| 1. | [ verb ] (housing) make one's home or live in | |
| Synonyms: | reside populate dwell inhabit domicile people domiciliate shack | |
| Examples: | "There are only 250,000 people in Iceland" "I live in a 200-year old house" "These people inhabited all the islands that are now deserted" "The plains are sparsely populated" |
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| Related terms: | be camp occupy lodge board cohabit overpopulate neighbor rusticate live_in live_out people dwelling population resident inhabitant hovel residency inhabitancy liver | |
| 2. | [ verb ] lead a certain kind of life; live in a certain style | |
| Examples: | "we had to live frugally after the war" |
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| Related terms: | swing move unlive wanton dissipate vegetate bushwhack buccaneer bachelor eke_out pig cash_out liver exist | |
| 3. | [ verb ] (work) support oneself by doing a certain type of work | |
| Synonyms: | survive last endure live_on go hold_up live_off hold_out live_by exist_by | |
| Examples: | "She lives on the meager income from her writing" |
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| Related terms: | exist stand_up live_out perennate exist be be | |
| 4. | [ verb ] continue to live; endure or last | |
| Synonyms: | survive last endure go hold_up hold_out live_on | |
| Examples: | "We went without water and food for 3 days" "The legend of Elvis lives on" "These superstitions survive in the backwaters of America" "The racecar driver lived through several very serious accidents" |
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| Related terms: | stand_up live_out perennate exist be be | |
| 5. | [ verb ] support oneself | |
| Synonyms: | survive exist subsist | |
| Examples: | "he could barely exist on such a low wage" "Can you live on $2000 a month in New York City?" "Many people in the world have to subsist on $1 a day" |
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| Related terms: | live_on breathe indwell freewheel live_on live_on live_on survive survivor | |
| 6. | [ verb ] have life, be alive | |
| Synonyms: | be | |
| Examples: | "Our great leader is no more" "My grandfather lived until the end of war" |
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| Related terms: | live_on survive animation life_form | |
| 7. | [ adjective ] (television) actually being performed (or--for the audience--present) at the time of viewing | |
| Synonyms: | unrecorded | |
| Examples: | "a live television program" "brought to you live from Lincoln Center" "live entertainment" involves performers actually in the physical presence of a "live audience" |
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| Related terms: | recorded unfilmed | |
| 8. | [ verb ] have firsthand knowledge of states, situations, emotions, or sensations | |
| Synonyms: | know experience | |
| Examples: | "I know the feeling!" "have you ever known hunger?" "I have lived a kind of hell when I was a drug addict" "The holocaust survivors have lived a nightmare" |
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| Related terms: | experience relive taste experience | |
| 9. | [ adjective ] charged with an explosive | |
| Examples: | "live ammunition" "a live bomb" |
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| Related terms: | loaded | |
| 10. | [ adverb ] not recorded | |
| Examples: | "the opera was broadcast live" |
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| 11. | [ adjective ] showing characteristics of life; exerting force or containing energy | |
| Examples: | "live coals" "tossed a live cigarette out the window" "got a shock from a live wire" "live ore is unmined ore" "a live bomb" "a live ball is one in play" |
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| Related terms: | dead smoldering living in_play living glowing | |
| 12. | [ adjective ] of current relevance | |
| Examples: | "a live issue" "still a live option" |
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| Related terms: | current | |
| 13. | [ adjective ] (electricity) charged or energized with electricity | |
| Synonyms: | hot | |
| Examples: | "a hot wire" "a live wire" |
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| Related terms: | electricity charged | |
| 14. | [ adjective ] having life | |
| Synonyms: | living | |
| Examples: | "a live canary" "hit a live nerve" "famous living painters" "living tissue" "living plants and animals" |
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| Related terms: | alive | |
| 15. | [ adjective ] (informal) abounding with life and energy | |
| Examples: | "the club members are a really live bunch" |
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| Related terms: | colloquialism lively | |
| 16. | [ adjective ] highly reverberant | |
| Examples: | "a live concert hall" |
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| Related terms: | reverberant | |
| 17. | [ adjective ] rebounds readily | |
| Synonyms: | lively resilient springy whippy bouncy | |
| Examples: | "clean bouncy hair" "a lively tennis ball" "as resiliant as seasoned hickory" "springy turf" |
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| Related terms: | elastic | |
| 18. | [ verb ] pursue a positive and satisfying existence | |
| Examples: | "You must accept yourself and others if you really want to live" |
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| 19. | [ adjective ] (printing) in current use or ready for use | |
| Examples: | "live copy is ready to be set in type or already set but not yet proofread" |
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| Related terms: | printing current | |
| 20. | [ adjective ] capable of erupting | |
| Synonyms: | alive | |
| Examples: | "a live volcano" "the volcano is very much alive" |
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| Related terms: | active | |
| Similar spelling: |
liv Lipe life lief Lieb Lippe Libbey lip Libbie livy Lipp lifo |
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