Main entry: know, live, experience
Definition: have firsthand knowledge of states, situations, emotions, or sensations
Usage: 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
Definition: have life, be alive
Usage: Our great leader is no more; My grandfather lived until the end of war
Main entry: live
Definition: lead a certain kind of life; live in a certain style
Usage: we had to live frugally after the war
Main entry: live
Definition: pursue a positive and satisfying existence
Usage: You must accept yourself and others if you really want to live
Main entry: subsist, survive, live, exist
Definition: support oneself
Usage: 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
Main entry: go, hold out, hold up, live, live on, last, endure, survive
Definition: continue to live through hardship or adversity
Usage: We went without water and food for 3 days; These superstitions survive in the backwaters of America; The race car driver lived through several very serious accidents; how long can a person last without food and water?
Main entry: dwell, live, inhabit, populate
Definition: inhabit or live in; be an inhabitant of
Usage: People lived in Africa millions of years ago; The people inhabited the islands that are now deserted; this kind of fish dwells near the bottom of the ocean; deer are populating the woods
Definition: capable of erupting
Usage: a live volcano; the volcano is very much alive
Definition: possessing life
Usage: the happiest person alive; the nerve is alive; doctors are working hard to keep him alive; burned alive; a live canary
Main entry: live
Definition: exerting force or containing energy
Usage: live coals; tossed a live cigarette out the window; got a shock from a live wire; live ore is unmined ore; a live bomb; a live ball is one in play
Definition: charged or energized with electricity
Usage: a hot wire; a live wire
Main entry: live
Definition: of current relevance
Usage: a live issue; still a live option
Main entry: live
Definition: in current use or ready for use
Usage: live copy is ready to be set in type or already set but not yet proofread
Main entry: live
Definition: abounding with life and energy
Usage: the club members are a really live bunch
Main entry: bouncy, springy, live, lively, resilient
Definition: elastic; rebounds readily
Usage: clean bouncy hair; a lively tennis ball; as resilient as seasoned hickory; springy turf
Main entry: live, unrecorded
Definition: actually being performed at the time of hearing or viewing
Usage: a live television program; brought to you live from Lincoln Center; live entertainment involves performers actually in the physical presence of a live audience
Main entry: live
Definition: charged with an explosive
Usage: live ammunition; a live bomb
Main entry: live
Definition: highly reverberant
Usage: a live concert hall
Main entry: live
Definition: not recorded
Usage: the opera was broadcast live