liue

Verb

live (third-person singular simple present lives, present participle living, simple past and past participle lived)

1. (intransitive) To be alive; to have life.
   • He's not expected to live for more than a few months.
2. (intransitive) To have permanent residence somewhere, to inhabit, to reside.
   • I live at 2a Acacia Avenue. At that time I'd been living in a camper for about six months.

   Synonyms:

   range

   1. (informal, intransitive) (of an object) to have its proper place; to normally be stored.
      • I washed your gravy boat. Where does it live?
3. (intransitive) To survive; to persevere; to continue.
   • When Lazarus left his charnel-cave,
     ⁠And home to Mary’s house return’d, […]
     ‘Where wert thou, brother, those four days?’
     ⁠There lives no record of reply,
     ⁠Which telling what it is to die
     Had surely added praise to praise.1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto XXXI”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 50

   Synonyms:

   go on

4. (intransitive) To endure in memory; to escape oblivion.
   • Her memory lives in that song.
5. (excessive, intransitive) To cope.
   • You'll just have to live with it! I can't live in a world without you.

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