live body
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- noun
- /laɪv ˈbɑdi/
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cuerpo vivo
- It's been a hard sell because a lot of professors don't want to be in the same room with their students, and a surprising number of students are claustrophobic when put in a room with thirty other live bodies.
- live body weight
Consciousness is something that permeates the living body.
- Consciousness is something that permeates the living body.
- But bodies, living bodies, are either healthy or diseased.
Examples
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The rescue team successfully located a live body trapped under the rubble after the earthquake.
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I have five live bodies left, sir.
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Well, well, I wonder if we're gonna find a live body in here.
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I called Loyola, again, and got a live body who seemed very confused by the situation.
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No wonder you were fooled into imagining that you had seen the corpse of Madame Marshall, when what you had actually seen was the live body of Madame Christine Redfern.
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First responders rushed to the scene to check for any live bodies still inside the damaged building.
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In the medical training session, the students practiced on a live body to learn how to perform emergency procedures.
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'the body of a living animal or person' is directly and literally composed from 'live' (living) + 'body' (physical structure), so a learner who knows both words can infer the meaning. This adjective + noun composition is a regular, cross-linguistically common pattern, making the expression immediately comprehensible to a B1 learner.
Etymology
The noun live body comes from the simple image of a rescuer finding a live body under rubble and seeing someone breathe or move. That clear scene explains why it means 'a living animal or person'.