live
About 101.43 uses per million words.
Meaning
- verb To be alive; to have life.
He's not expected to live for more than a few months.
- verb 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.
- verb (of an object) to have its proper place; to normally be stored.
I washed your gravy boat. Where does it live?
- verb To survive; to persevere; to continue.
- verb To endure in memory; to escape oblivion.
Her memory lives in that song.
- verb To cope.
You'll just have to live with it! I can't live in a world without you.
- verb To pass life in a specified manner.
It is difficult to live in poverty. And they lived happily ever after.
- verb To spend, as one's life; to pass; to maintain; to continue in, constantly or habitually.
To live an idle or a useful life.
Similar words
alive live on survive subsist endure hold out last dwell lively loaded
Often followed by
in with on and to by a for up
Word family
lived liver lives livest living
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