live
adjective [before noun] (HAVING LIFE) /laɪv/Definition
› having life: Millions of live animals are shipped around the world each year. There was a tank of live lobsters in the restaurant.Life and living
(Definition of live adjective (HAVING LIFE) from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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Synonyms and related words:
- alive adjective
- animate adjective
- cheat death idiom
- co-exist verb
- come through (sth) phrasal verb
- immortal adjective
- last out phrasal verb
- lead verb (LIVE)
- life cycle noun
- life expectancy noun
- life form noun
- life history noun
- living adjective (HAVING LIFE)
- living noun (PEOPLE)
- outlive verb
- subsist verb
- subsistence noun
- survivable adjective
- survival noun
- vital adjective (LIVELY)
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