alive
adjective /əˈlaɪv/Definition
B1 [after verb] living, not dead: He must be 90 if he's still alive. Doctors kept him alive on a life-support machine. She's alive and well and living in New Zealand.Life and living C2 If something is alive, it continues to exist: Relatives of the missing sailors are struggling to keep their hopes alive.Existing and being
(Definition of alive adjective from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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Synonyms and related words:
- account for sth phrasal verb
- am verb
- are verb
- be verb (DESCRIPTION)
- be verb (EXIST)
- come verb (EXIST)
- exist verb (LIVE)
- existence noun
- existent adjective
- extant adjective
- go back phrasal verb (ORIGIN)
- have legs idiom
- lie verb (POSITION)
- live verb (HAVE A HOME)
- living adjective (CONTINUING)
- lurk verb
- reign verb
- run verb (BECOME)
- viability noun
- was verb
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Existing and being
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