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  1. intransitive verb To be alive; exist.
  2. intransitive verb To continue to be alive: lived through a bad accident.
  3. intransitive verb To support oneself; subsist: living on rice and fish; lives on a small inheritance.
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  • I can't trust anyone to protect my life who does not believe that my live is a great gift from God. —  Vlad Zablotskyy
  • This is the first notice described as a live-fire exercise that the coast guard has received this year, Japanese coast guard spokesman Tomoyuki Suzuki said. —  Stars and Stripes
  • The land iguana, called rosada or "pink" in Spanish, live near the northernmost volcano of the island of Isabela, one of the few places on the island Darwin did not visit during his visit in 1835. —  CBC | Top Stories News
  • Just as Las Vegas is known as an adult playground and Austin, Texas is known as a live-music destination, Phoenix hopes to similarly set itself apart with the new brand. —  Tucson Citizen
  • New Scientist's reporters are blogging live from the American Association for the Advancement of Science's meeting in Chicago - read their updates here —  New Scientist - Space
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life ·  family ·  character ·  soul ·  experience ·  existence ·  home ·  society ·  thought ·  state ·  one

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live:   lives ·  living ·  lived
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Etymologies (4)

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  1. Middle English liven, from Old English libban, lifian; see leip- in Indo-European roots.
  2. Short for alive.

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  1. from Middle English liven, livien, luvien, libben, from Anglo-Saxon lifian, lyfian, leofian, libban (preterit lifode) = Old Saxon libbian = OFries. leva, liva, libba = D. Middle Low German Low German leven = Old High German lebēn, Middle High German G. leben = Icelandic lifa = Danish leve = Swedish lefva = Gothic (Moesogothic) liban (preterit libaida), live, in Icelandic also remain, be left (cf. Gothic (Moesogothic) af-lifnan, be left); a secondary verb, from the stem of Anglo-Saxon *līfan (in comp. belīfan = Old Saxon bilībhan = OFries. bilīva = Dutch blijven = Old High German bilīban, Middle High German belīben, blīben = Danish blive = Swedish blifva), remain, be left, whence also ult. Anglo-Saxon līf, life, lǣfan, leave, lāf, what is left: see life, leave, lave.
  2. By apheresis from alive, orig. on life (Middle English on live): see alive. As now used alive is retained in the orig. predicate use, while live is exclusively employed in the attributive use.
 

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