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Live

Verb1.live - make one's home or live in; "She resides officially 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"
neighbor, neighbour - live or be located as a neighbor; "the neighboring house"
rusticate - live in the country and lead a rustic life
lodge in, reside, occupy - live (in a certain place)
overpopulate - cause to have too great a population; "Some towns in New Jersey are becoming overpopulated"
cohabit, shack up - room or live together; usually said of people who are not married and live together as a couple
lodge - be a lodger; stay temporarily; "Where are you lodging in Paris?"
bivouac, camp, camp out, encamp, tent - live in or as if in a tent; "Can we go camping again this summer?"; "The circus tented near the town"; "The houseguests had to camp in the living room"
be - occupy a certain position or area; be somewhere; "Where is my umbrella?" "The toolshed is in the back"; "What is behind this behavior?"
room, board - live and take one's meals at or in; "she rooms in an old boarding house"
live in, sleep in - live in the house where one works; "our babysitter lives in, as it is too far to commute for her"
sleep out, live out - work in a house where one does not live; "our cook lives out; he can easily commute from his home"
2.live - lead a certain kind of life; live in a certain style; "we had to live frugally after the war"
move - live one's life in a specified environment; "she moves in certain circles only"
dissipate - live a life or pleasure, especially with respect to alcoholic consumption
live - pursue a positive and satisfying existence; "You must accept yourself and others if you really want to live"
swing - live in a lively, modern, and relaxed style; "The Woodstock generation attempted to swing freely"
live down, unlive - live so as to annul some previous behavior; "You can never live this down!"
wanton - indulge in a carefree or voluptuous way of life
vegetate - lead a passive existence without using one's body or mind
pig, pig it - live like a pig, in squalor
bushwhack - live in the bush as a fugitive or as a guerilla
buccaneer - live like a buccaneer
bach, bachelor - lead a bachelor's existence
eke out - live from day to day, as with some hardship; "He eked out his years in great poverty"
cash out - choose a simpler life style after questioning personal and career satisfaction goals; "After 3 decades in politics, she cashed out and moved to Polynesia"
3.live - continue to live; endure or last; "We went without water and food for 3 days"; "These superstitions survive in the backwaters of America"; "The racecar driver lived through several very serious accidents"
live, be - have life, be alive; "Our great leader is no more"; "My grandfather lived until the end of war"
subsist, exist, survive, live - support oneself; "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"
hold water, stand up, hold up - resist or withstand wear, criticism, etc.; "Her shoes won't hold up"; "This theory won't hold water"
perennate - survive from season to season, of plants
live out - live out one's life; live to the end
4.live - support oneself; "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"
breathe - be alive; "Every creature that breathes"
indwell - to exist as an inner activating spirit, force, or principle
freewheel, drift - live unhurriedly, irresponsibly, or freely; "My son drifted around for years in California before going to law school"
live on, survive, last, live, endure, hold out, hold up, go - continue to live; endure or last; "We went without water and food for 3 days"; "These superstitions survive in the backwaters of America"; "The racecar driver lived through several very serious accidents"
5.live - have life, be alive; "Our great leader is no more"; "My grandfather lived until the end of war"
live on, survive, last, live, endure, hold out, hold up, go - continue to live; endure or last; "We went without water and food for 3 days"; "These superstitions survive in the backwaters of America"; "The racecar driver lived through several very serious accidents"
6.live - have firsthand knowledge of states, situations, emotions, or sensations; "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"; "I lived through two divorces"
taste - experience briefly; "The ex-slave tasted freedom shortly before she died"
live over, relive - experience again, often in the imagination; "He relived the horrors of war"
experience, go through, undergo, see - go or live through; "We had many trials to go through"; "he saw action in Viet Nam"
7.live - pursue a positive and satisfying existence; "You must accept yourself and others if you really want to live"
live - lead a certain kind of life; live in a certain style; "we had to live frugally after the war"
Adj.1.live - actually being performed at the time of hearing or viewing; "a live television program"; "brought to you live from Lincoln Center"; "live entertainment involves performers actually in the physical presence of a live audience"
recorded - set down or registered in a permanent form especially on film or tape for reproduction; "recorded music"
2.live - showing characteristics of life; exerting force or containing energy; "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"
dead - not showing characteristics of life especially the capacity to sustain life; no longer exerting force or having energy or heat; "Mars is a dead planet"; "a dead battery"; "dead soil"; "dead coals"; "the fire is dead"
3.live - highly reverberant; "a live concert hall"
reverberant, ringing - having a tendency to reverberate or be repeatedly reflected; "a reverberant room"; "the reverberant booms of cannon"
4.live - charged with an explosive; "live ammunition"; "a live bomb"
loaded - (of weapons) charged with ammunition; "a loaded gun"
5.live - rebounds readily; "clean bouncy hair"; "a lively tennis ball"; "as resiliant as seasoned hickory"; "springy turf"
elastic - capable of resuming original shape after stretching or compression; springy; "an elastic band"; "a youthful and elastic walk"
6.live - abounding with life and energy; "the club members are a really live bunch"
colloquialism - a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech
lively - full of life and energy; "a lively discussion"; "lively and attractive parents"; "a lively party"
7.live - in current use or ready for use; "live copy is ready to be set in type or already set but not yet proofread"
printing process, printing - reproduction by applying ink to paper as for publication
current - occurring in or belonging to the present time; "current events"; "the current topic"; "current negotiations"; "current psychoanalytic theories"; "the ship's current position"
8.live - of current relevance; "a live issue"; "still a live option"
current - occurring in or belonging to the present time; "current events"; "the current topic"; "current negotiations"; "current psychoanalytic theories"; "the ship's current position"
9.live - charged or energized with electricity; "a hot wire"; "a live wire"
electricity - a physical phenomenon associated with stationary or moving electrons and protons
charged - of a particle or body or system; having a net amount of positive or negative electric charge; "charged particles"; "a charged battery"
10.live - having life; "a live canary"; "hit a live nerve"; "famous living painters"; "living tissue";
alive - possessing life; "the happiest person alive"; "the nerve is alive"; "doctors are working hard to keep him alive"; "burned alive"
11.live - capable of erupting; "a live volcano"; "the volcano is very much alive"
active - (of e.g. volcanos) erupting or liable to erupt; "active volcanos"
Adv.1.live - not recorded; "the opera was broadcast live"

 

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