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Adjective living has 7 senses
- living - pertaining to living persons; "within living memory"
- living - true to life; lifelike; "the living image of her mother"
Antonym: unrealistic (indirect, via realistic)
- living - dwelling or inhabiting; often used in combination; "living quarters"; "tree-living animals"
- living - (informal) absolute; "she is a living doll"; "scared the living daylights out of them"; "beat the living hell out of him"
Antonym: relative (indirect, via absolute)
- surviving, living - still in existence; "the Wollemi pine found in Australia is a surviving specimen of a conifer thought to have been long extinct and therefore known as a living fossil"; "the only surviving frontier blockhouse in Pennsylvania"
Antonyms: extinct, nonextant (indirect, via extant)
- living - still in active use; "a living language"
Antonyms: extinct, nonextant (indirect, via extant)
- living - (used of minerals or stone) in its natural state and place; not mined or quarried; "carved into the living stone";
Antonym: dead (indirect, via live)
Noun living has 4 senses
- life, living - the experience of living; the course of human events and activities; "he could no longer cope with the complexities of life"
--1 is a kind of experience
- living - people who are still living; "save your pity for the living"
--2 is a kind of people
Antonyms: dead
- animation, life, living, aliveness - the condition of living or the state of being alive; "while there's life there's hope"; "life depends on many chemical and physical processes"
--3 is a kind of being, beingness, existence
--3 has particulars: eternal life, life eternal; skin; survival, endurance
- support, keep, livelihood, living, bread and butter, sustenance - the financial means whereby one lives; "each child was expected to pay for their keep"; "he applied to the state for support"; "he could no longer earn his own livelihood"
--4 is a kind of resource
--4 has particulars:
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
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s PP
- 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"
Sample sentence:
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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Somebody ----s on something
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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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