live off
live off verb: to depend on financially.
Verb
live off (third-person singular simple present lives off, present participle living off, simple past and past participle lived off)
- To depend on financially.
- To survive by consuming only a certain thing or things.
- When I was a student, I lived off baked potatoes.
- I live off nothing in this world / Except the thick grey air that chains itself / Swirls all around and engrains itself1985, “World Without Warning”, in Pressure Points, performed by Anne Clark
- Synonyms:
- live on
live off meaning in Malayalam
live off in Malayalam
- subsist on, feed on, feed off
- അതിനെആശ്രയിക്കുക, എന്തിനെയെങ്കിലും ആശ്രയിച്ചു ജീവിക്കുക, വജിക്കുക, ഉപജീവിക്കുക, ജീവിതം നിലനിർത്താൻ ആശ്രയിക്കുക, പരിമിതിക്കുളളിൽ ഒതുങ്ങി ജീവിക്കുക
Synonyms of live off
Forms of live off
| third-person singular present | lives off |
|---|---|
| present participle | living off |
| past participle | lived off |
| past | lived off |
Questions about live off
- What does live off mean?
- Live off means to depend on financially.
- What is live off in Malayalam?
- Live off in Malayalam is അതിനെആശ്രയിക്കുക, എന്തിനെയെങ്കിലും ആശ്രയിച്ചു ജീവിക്കുക, വജിക്കുക. See Live off meaning in Malayalam.
- What part of speech is live off?
- Live off is a verb.
- What is the past tense of live off?
- The past tense of live off is lived off.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: live off (page history and authors); live off (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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