to live
- verb
- /lɪv/
- Or would you choose to live forever if you could?
- live longer
- live forever
- live with HIV/AIDS
So they're just wanting their church members to live longer.
- So they're just wanting their church members to live longer.
- Like how long you think you'd live until I get bored.
- I think she's trying to live day by day.
- Stoics did still, you know, live in a time of slavery.
- And she says at the end, live, not for battles won.
- He was a beautiful turtle who lived a long, long life.
- Subscribe, ring the bell, live long and prosper.
- A search engine can determine who shall live and who shall die.
- But you have never lived until you've almost died.
- I want to know, feel, feel that I live, not know, feel.
Examples
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Ham proved that mankind could live and work in space.
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Many animals can live in extreme conditions, such as the deep sea.
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You must step up to live life on your own terms.
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No, no, no, I am going to live forever.
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I live as I want to live.
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I think she's trying to live day by day.
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The intervention means that most sufferers are able to live at home for longer.
Academic text (2011) -
I want to live!
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Women in today's society are living longer, with an average lifespan of 80 years.
Academic text (2011) -
He struggled to live in a way that made him happy despite the challenges.
Synonyms
To continue for a period of time
Continue to exist after a dangerous or difficult event
To manage to live with very little money or food
To deal with something difficult for a long time without giving up
To be alive
To continue to exist after a dangerous or difficult time
Manage to live with very little food or money
An old word form people use with he, she, or it to say someone is alive
Antonyms
Idioms
- Informal
Lead a life full of risk and excitement by doing dangerous things
- Informal
To be very excited about something and always make it a main part of life
- NSFW
A couple who live together and have sex without being married, often seen as wrong by some people
To stay constantly in someone's thoughts and annoy them
Phrasal Verbs
- Informal
Enjoy yourself in a lively, often expensive way at parties or restaurants
Compounds
A medium-sized evergreen oak tree with leathery spiny-edged leaves that grows in dry canyons in southwestern US and northwestern Mexico
- Specialized
An evergreen oak tree with small, thick, spiny dark green leaves that grows on the coast of California
- Specialized
A short bushy evergreen tree that grows along the west coast of North America with small thick spiny leaves
- Australian
A small bush from the tropics whose leaves fold when touched and that has sharp thorns
A small hardy plant with thick leaves that forms low clusters and small purple and white flowers
- Specialized
An evergreen tree with thick leaves that grows in dry hills of western North America
- Specialized
A medicine taken by mouth that contains three weakened live polio viruses to protect against polio
An evergreen tree from the southern United States with wide, spreading branches and very hard wood
How Alive
Surface Forms
Etymology
Live comes from an old English word life meaning 'life'. To live is simply to have 'life' or to continue to exist, which is the basic meaning of the verb.