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Alive   /əlˈaɪv/   Listen
Alive

adjective
1.
Possessing life.  Synonym: live.  "The nerve is alive" , "Doctors are working hard to keep him alive" , "Burned alive" , "A live canary"
2.
(often followed by 'with') full of life and spirit.  "A face alive with mischief"
3.
Having life or vigor or spirit.  Synonym: animated.  "Animated conversation" , "Became very animated when he heard the good news"
4.
(followed by 'to' or 'of') aware of.
5.
In operation.  Synonym: active.  "The tradition was still alive" , "An active tradition"
6.
Mentally perceptive and responsive.  Synonyms: alert, awake.  "Alert to the problems" , "Alive to what is going on" , "Awake to the dangers of her situation" , "Was now awake to the reality of his predicament"
7.
Capable of erupting.  Synonym: live.  "The volcano is very much alive"



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"Alive" Quotes from Famous Books



... What have you got there, Daisy? Let's see! As sure as I'm alive! a spelling book. Keeping ...
— Melbourne House • Elizabeth Wetherell
... babes and 100 more | |who were kneeling in prayer in St. | |Malachi's Home, a Roman Catholic | |institution for the care of orphans at | |Rockaway Park, are alive to-day is due to| |the coolness of the nuns in charge and | |the children's remembrance of their | |teacher's ...
— Newspaper Reporting and Correspondence - A Manual for Reporters, Correspondents, and Students of - Newspaper Writing • Grant Milnor Hyde
... alive to influences affecting national prosperity, stated: "Public Health is the foundation on which reposes the happiness of the people and the power of a country. The care of the public health is the first duty of a statesman." It may well be claimed ...
— How to Live - Rules for Healthful Living Based on Modern Science • Irving Fisher and Eugene Fisk
... Murray nor I nor any of our associates at that time were alive to social and industrial needs which we now all of us recognize. But we then had very clearly before our minds the need of practically applying certain elemental virtues, the virtues of honesty and efficiency in politics, the virtue of efficiency ...
— Theodore Roosevelt - An Autobiography by Theodore Roosevelt • Theodore Roosevelt
... with all the spontaneity that was noticeable upon The Waif. The effect of that ripple of laughter was startling. The sound rebounded from the rocky cliffs, cannoned against the barriers opposite, and then bounced backward and forward till the whole atmosphere of the valley seemed alive with the laughter of sprites. For quite five minutes we stood listening, then the silence chased the last faint echoes out across the cliffs, and ...
— The White Waterfall • James Francis Dwyer


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