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The last person to see her alive is her mother, Casey Anthony who claims she dropped her daughter off on her way to work one morning at the Nanny's and when she returned to get her that evening there was no one there.

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  1. adjective Having life; living. See Synonyms at living.
  2. adjective In existence or operation; active: keep your hopes alive.
  3. adjective Full of living or moving things; abounding: a pool alive with trout.

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  • She had held their fate in her hands for thirty-plus years, and the only thing that had kept her alive was heroin. —  Disordered Minds
  • The last person to see her alive is her mother, Casey Anthony who claims she dropped her daughter off on her way to work one morning at the Nanny's and when she returned to get her that evening there was no one there. —  Blogger News Network
  • The voice grew fainter Seven--alive, and in good shape, and all your clothes But the last words fell on unconscious ears CHAPTER 4 THE TRAIL Frank, what'll we do about horses?" —  The Last of the Plainsmen
  • One thing, we were both alive--alive and kicking, too. —  The Sign of the Spider
  • It would be such a responsibility in the matter of wearing one's clothes, and doing one's hair, and never getting tanned or chapped And I love to be thin, and alive--alive, with my soul in proportion to my body, like a hand in a glove, not like a seed in a big apple. —  Set in Silver
 

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  1. Middle English : a-, in a specified state; see a-2 + live, life (from Old English līf; see life).

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  1. Early modern English also alyfe, on lyve, on lyfe, from Middle English alive, alyfe, o live, earlier on live, on life, from Anglo-Saxon on līfe, in life: on, in; līfe, dative case of līf, life: see a and life. Hence abbrev. live, adjective
 

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