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verb
(past & past part. lived; pres. part. living)
1.
Inhabit or live in; be an inhabitant of.  Synonyms: dwell, inhabit, populate.  "The people inhabited the islands that are now deserted" , "This kind of fish dwells near the bottom of the ocean" , "Deer are populating the woods"
2.
Lead a certain kind of life; live in a certain style.
3.
Continue to live through hardship or adversity.  Synonyms: endure, go, hold out, hold up, last, live on, survive.  "These superstitions survive in the backwaters of America" , "The race car driver lived through several very serious accidents" , "How long can a person last without food and water?"
4.
Support oneself.  Synonyms: exist, subsist, survive.  "Can you live on $2000 a month in New York City?" , "Many people in the world have to subsist on $1 a day"
5.
Have life, be alive.  Synonym: be.  "My grandfather lived until the end of war"
6.
Have firsthand knowledge of states, situations, emotions, or sensations.  Synonyms: experience, know.  "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" , "I lived through two divorces"
7.
Pursue a positive and satisfying existence.
adjective
1.
Actually being performed at the time of hearing or viewing.  Synonym: unrecorded.  "Brought to you live from Lincoln Center" , "Live entertainment involves performers actually in the physical presence of a live audience"
2.
Exerting force or containing energy.  "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"
3.
Possessing life.  Synonym: alive.  "The nerve is alive" , "Doctors are working hard to keep him alive" , "Burned alive" , "A live canary"
4.
Highly reverberant.
5.
Charged with an explosive.  "A live bomb"
6.
Elastic; rebounds readily.  Synonyms: bouncy, lively, resilient, springy.  "A lively tennis ball" , "As resilient as seasoned hickory" , "Springy turf"
7.
Abounding with life and energy.
8.
In current use or ready for use.
9.
Of current relevance.  "Still a live option"
10.
Charged or energized with electricity.  Synonym: hot.  "A live wire"
11.
Capable of erupting.  Synonym: alive.  "The volcano is very much alive"
adverb
1.
Not recorded.



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"Live" Quotes from Famous Books



... we are placed; but I truly, dearly love the sweet girl and earnestly desire to be given the right to protect, provide for and cherish her as my dearest earthly treasure so long as we both shall live." ...
— Grandmother Elsie • Martha Finley
... and the methods of attachment of which are singularly various and beautiful. The fungi differs from the lichens and algae in deriving their nourishment from the substances on which they grow, instead of from the media in which they live. They contain a larger quantity of nitrogen in their constitution than vegetables generally do, and the substance called 'fungine' has a near resemblance to animal matter. Their spores are inconceivably numerous and minute, and are ...
— Forty Centuries of Ink • David N. Carvalho
... egg or embryo (the future child) begins to grow, and it remains in the womb for two hundred and eighty days from the day when the male and female egg met. It is quite natural for an intelligent girl to ask her mother to explain, "How a baby can live in there for such a long time," or "What makes it grow if it does not get anything to eat ...
— The Eugenic Marriage, Vol 2 (of 4) - A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies • W. Grant Hague
... indeed," Madame Christophor repeated. "Do you not understand what I mean when I tell you that she is dying of it? Very likely she will not live a week—perhaps not a day. She lies there alone in the garden of the hospital and she is afraid. There are none who knew her, whom she cares for, to take her into their arms and to bid her have no fear. Is it not your place to do this? You have held her in your arms in life. ...
— The Mischief Maker • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... is the longest. Another boasted that he had fairly taken his shortest, and that doing so he first compassed his design. Thus, Carpalin, meeting once Epistemon looking upon a wall with his fiddle-diddle, or live urinal, in his hand, to make a little maid's water, cried that he did not wonder now how the other came to be still the first at Pantagruel's levee, since he held his shortest and ...
— Gargantua and Pantagruel, Complete. • Francois Rabelais


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