to live out
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3.7
- phrasal verb
- /lɪv aʊt/
:
vivir el resto de su vida
- "We wanted to buy this entire world, settle here, and live out our lives in peace and harmony."
- live out their lives
- live out the rest
- live out their years
And it's through fulfilling our duties that we, in fact, live out the virtues.
- And it's through fulfilling our duties that we, in fact, live out the virtues.
- Well, I think it comes from trying to fully understand and live out true unconditional love.
- As she has no siblings and I have no siblings and I live out here in Los Angeles.
- You live out in the white suburbs of Oklahoma City or you live out in rural America.
- Who am I unwilling to disappoint in order to live out some things that I know to be true?
- So I think as as a leader, if you set a true example and and live out that example, people will follow.
- I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed.
- The, the, the want and the emotions to be liked or the desire to try to live out convictions.
- And because they're so upset with who they are that they turn to attacking those exact people for living out freely as they are.
- Through cultural changes, our ancestors largely eliminated early death so that people can now live out their full lives.
- So you haven't quite been able to live out what a day-to-day life would be.
- No, the real core was way back then and it was lived out by people then.
Examples
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Mary Magdalene lived out her days in hiding.
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I'm an old lady, and I want to live out my final days in peace.
Fiction book (1999) -
I did not know how I wanted to live out the last act of my life.
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We have to seek truth where people are actually living out some sort of truth.
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Hundreds of people lived out their lives here.
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I will live out my days naked and free.
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I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed.
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Well, I think it comes from trying to fully understand and live out true unconditional love.
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Their stepmother Sallie married yet again, apparently living out her years with her husband in Belfast, Ireland.
Academic text (1999) -
I want to live out my final days in peace, surrounded by family and friends.
Synonyms
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1.9
To have a particular way of life
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3.2
To continue to exist after a dangerous or difficult time
Antonyms
How Long
Surface Forms
Morphology
The adverb 'out' conveys 'away' or 'outside', so combining it with 'live' makes a meaning involving residing away from some reference point and is partly predictable from the constituents. However, the specific occupational/cultural sense (e.g. a live-out domestic worker who works in someone's home but lives elsewhere) or the exact pragmatic interpretation in contexts like 'lives out in the suburbs' is not fully derivable without exposure, so the expression is only partially transparent to a B1 learner.
Etymology
Live out uses out like 'to the end'. Imagine someone staying in the same small house and living each day until their last day there. That's why it means 'to continue to live until the end' in a particular way or place.