The Collaborative International Dictionary
Live \Live\ (l[i^]v), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Lived (l[i^]vd); p. pr. & vb. n. Living.] [OE. liven, livien, AS. libban, lifian; akin to OS. libbian, D. leven, G. leben, OHG. leb[=e]n, Dan. leve, Sw. lefva, Icel. lifa to live, to be left, to remain, Goth. liban to live; akin to E. leave to forsake, and life, Gr. liparei^n to persist, liparo`s oily, shining, sleek, li`pos fat, lard, Skr. lip to anoint, smear; -- the first sense prob. was, to cleave to, stick to; hence, to remain, stay; and hence, to live.]
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To be alive; to have life; to have, as an animal or a plant, the capacity of assimilating matter as food, and to be dependent on such assimilation for a continuance of existence; as, animals and plants that live to a great age are long in reaching maturity.
Thus saith the Lord God unto these bones; Behold, I will . . . lay sinews upon you, and will bring up flesh upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and ye shall live.
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To pass one's time; to pass life or time in a certain manner, as to habits, conduct, or circumstances; as, to live in ease or affluence; to live happily or usefully.
O death, how bitter is the remembrance of thee to a man that liveth at rest in his possessions!
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To make one's abiding place or home; to abide; to dwell; to reside; as, to live in a cottage by the sea.
Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years.
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To be or continue in existence; to exist; to remain; to be permanent; to last; -- said of inanimate objects, ideas, etc.
Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues We write in water.
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To enjoy or make the most of life; to be in a state of happiness; as, people want not just to exist, but to live.
What greater curse could envious fortune give Than just to die when I began to live?
--Dryden. To feed; to subsist; to be nourished or supported; -- with on; as, horses live on grass and grain.
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To have a spiritual existence; to be quickened, nourished, and actuated by divine influence or faith.
The just shall live by faith.
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To be maintained in life; to acquire a livelihood; to subsist; -- with on or by; as, to live on spoils.
Those who live by labor.
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To outlast danger; to float; -- said of a ship, boat, etc.; as, no ship could live in such a storm. A strong mast that lived upon the sea. --Shak. To live out, to be at service; to live away from home as a servant. [U. S.] To live with.
To dwell or to be a lodger with.
To cohabit with; to have intercourse with, as male with female.
Usage examples of "to live out".
Offer them room and board in paradise, and a hefty salary to live out their wildest fantasies, and believe me they will be beating down the door.
The aim of individuation requires that one should find and then learn to live out of one's own center, in control of one's for and against.
In such cases, of course, the exploring mind had - like those of the death-escapers - to live out an alien-bodied life in the future.
In such cases, of course, the exploring mind had--like those of the death-escapers--to live out an alien-bodied life in the future.
If Chastity had a baby by the time he died or soon after, they'd send her back to Susannah to live out her life, and there were worse things than that.
We could have been left to die in the dark, or to live out our lives as slaves, under the Lone Power's influence.
We could have been left to die in the dark, or to live out our lives as slaves, under the Lone Power’.
He had come to this planet to live out his declining days in peace and solitude.
Before long they would start quitting, demanding to return with their gold to the world of their birth, to live out their lives in peace and harmony far from inexplicable alien altercations.
He looked around the table with smug satisfaction, like a man about to live out a dream he has cherished for a long, long time.
She would sell her soul just to have the opportunity to live out even one of those years by his side, instead of ending in this horrid cell.