EGAVE

live

About 101.43 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. verb To be alive; to have life.
    He's not expected to live for more than a few months.
  2. 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.
  3. verb (of an object) to have its proper place; to normally be stored.
    I washed your gravy boat. Where does it live?
  4. verb To survive; to persevere; to continue.
  5. verb To endure in memory; to escape oblivion.
    Her memory lives in that song.
  6. verb To cope.
    You'll just have to live with it! I can't live in a world without you.
  7. verb To pass life in a specified manner.
    It is difficult to live in poverty. And they lived happily ever after.
  8. 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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