live
/ˈlɪv/ verb A1- To be alive; to have life. · He's not expected to live for more than a few months.
- To have permanent residence somewhere, to inhabit, to reside. · I live at 2a Acacia Avenue. At that time I'd been living in a camper for about six months.
- (of an object) to have its proper place; to normally be stored. · I washed your gravy boat. Where does it live?
- To survive; to persevere; to continue.
- To endure in memory; to escape oblivion. · Her memory lives in that song.
- To cope. · You'll just have to live with it! I can't live in a world without you.
- To pass life in a specified manner. · It is difficult to live in poverty. And they lived happily ever after.
- To spend, as one's life; to pass; to maintain; to continue in, constantly or habitually. · To live an idle or a useful life.
He/she/it lives · Past lived · Past participle lived · -ing form living
Verb forms
- Base form
- live
- He/she/it
- lives
- Past
- lived
- Past participle
- lived
- -ing form
- living
Phrasal verbs and expressions
- live down To live so as to subdue or refute.
- live in To reside on the premises of one's employer (used especia...
- live off To depend on financially.
- live on To endure.
- live out To not reside on the premises of one's employer (used esp...
- live through To survive a difficult period or event
- live up To fulfil the expectations placed upon one.
From the library
Dorothy lived in the midst of the great Kansas prairies, with Uncle Henry, who was a farmer, and Aunt Em, who was the farmer’s wife.
“Alas, madame,” returned Villefort, “my profession, as well as the times in which we live, compels me to be severe.
All we have got to do is, to keep our own counsel, and remain perfectly quiet, not breathing a word to any living soul; and you will see that the storm will pass away without in the least affecting us.”
And as bees cannot live when their stings are broken that was the end of the black bees, and they lay scattered thick about the Woodman, like little heaps of fine coal.
Other matches
- live Having life B1
- live Of an event, as it happens C2
- live down To live so as to subdue or refute.
- live in To reside on the premises of one's employer
- live off To depend on financially.
- live on To endure.
- live out To not reside on the premises of one's employer
- live through To survive a difficult period or event
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