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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



... you you'd need help, Barkley," he said. "They've got ways of their own. You can't come in here and take that whole town without reckoning with the people that live there. Now suppose we get Anderson to himself and talk things over with him a little? We may not have another chance ...
— Heart's Desire • Emerson Hough
... upon Mr. B——, of a consumptive family, and himself in the last stage of a phthisis; after he was so ill as to be confined to his chamber, his breathing became so extremely difficult and distressing, that he wished rather to die than to live, and urged me warmly to devise some mode to relieve him. Suspecting serous effusion to be the cause of this symptom, and he being a man of sense and resolution, I fully explained my ideas to him, and told ...
— An Account of the Foxglove and some of its Medical Uses - With Practical Remarks on Dropsy and Other Diseases • William Withering
... refused license through his chaplains, and could not be ignored as Milton had ignored the little Presbyterian Popes; Geneva in his person must repair to Lambeth. Chaplain Tomkyns, who took cognisance of "Paradise Lost," was fortunately a broad-minded man, disposed to live and let live, though scrupling somewhat when he found "perplexity" and "fear of change" imputed to "monarchs." His objections were overcome, and on August 20, 1667—three weeks after the death of Cowley, and eight days after Pepys ...
— Life of John Milton • Richard Garnett
... heart—the sacred domestic affection that must not here be named—the eloquence which, like the song of Orpheus, will fade from living memory into a doubtful tale—the surrender of ambition, the consecration of a life hidden with God in sympathy with man—these, all these, will live among your immortal traditions, heroic even in ...
— The Evolution of Expression Vol. I • Charles Wesley Emerson
... attachment or pretence of feeling were necessary. She had indeed no theories in her mind about being a good wife; but she would not be a bad one. She would keep her part of the compact; there should be nothing to complain of, nothing to object to. She would do her best to amuse the man she had to live with and make his life agreeable to him, which is a thing not always taken into consideration in marriage-contracts much more ideal in character. He should not be allowed to be dull, that was one thing certain. Regarding the matter in this reasonable ...
— Sir Tom • Mrs. Oliphant


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