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Verb live has 7 senses
- dwell, shack, reside, live, inhabit, people, populate, domicile, domiciliate - make one's home or live in; "She resides officially in Iceland"; "I live in a 200-year old house"; "These people inhabited all the islands that are now deserted"; "The plains are sparsely populated"
--1 is one way to be
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- live - lead a certain kind of life; live in a certain style; "we had to live frugally after the war"
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- survive, last, live, live on, go, endure, hold up, hold out - continue to live; endure or last; "We went without water and food for 3 days"; "These superstitions survive in the backwaters of America"; "The racecar driver lived through several very serious accidents"
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The business is going to live
- exist, survive, live, subsist - support oneself; "he could barely exist on such a low wage"; "Can you live on $2000 a month in New York City?"; "Many people in the world have to subsist on $1 a day"
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- be, live - have life, be alive; "Our great leader is no more"; "My grandfather lived until the end of war"
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- know, experience, live - have firsthand knowledge of states, situations, emotions, or sensations; "I know the feeling!"; "have you ever known hunger?"; "I have lived a kind of hell when I was a drug addict"; "The holocaust survivors have lived a nightmare"; "I lived through two divorces"
--6 is one way to experience, undergo, see, go through
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- live - pursue a positive and satisfying existence; "You must accept yourself and others if you really want to live"
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