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v. lead a certain kind of life; live in a certain style; "we had to live frugally after the war"

v. 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"

be, have life

v. have life, be alive; "Our great leader is no more"; "My grandfather lived until the end of war"

exist, survive, subsist

v. 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"

go, last, hold out, hold up, endure, survive

v. continue to live; endure or last; "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?"

shack, people, dwell, reside, inhabit, populate, make one's home

v. inhabit or live in; "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"

live

adv. not recorded; "the opera was broadcast live"

live

adj. exerting force or containing energy; "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"

live

adj. actually being performed at the time of hearing or viewing; "a live television program"; "brought to you live from Lincoln Center"; "live entertainment involves performers actually in the physical presence of a live audience"

live

adj. highly reverberant; "a live concert hall"

living

adj. possessing life; "the happiest person alive"; "the nerve is alive"; "doctors are working hard to keep him alive"; "burned alive"; "a live canary"

alive, eruptive

adj. actively spewing out lava; "a geyser is an intermittently eruptive hot spring"

lively, bouncy, resilient, springy, whippy

adj. elastic; rebounds readily; "clean bouncy hair"; "a lively tennis ball"; "as resilient as seasoned hickory"; "springy turf"

hold, obtain, prevail

v. be valid, applicable, or true; "This theory still holds"

run, persist, die hard, endure, prevail

v. continue to exist; "These stories die hard"; "The legend of Elvis endures"

last, endure

v. persist for a specified period of time; "The bad weather lasted for three days"

brave, weather, endure, brave out

v. face or endure with courage; "She braved the elements"

preserve, continue, bear on, carry on, uphold

v. keep or maintain in unaltered condition; cause to remain or last; "preserve the peace in the family"; "continue the family tradition"; "Carry on the old traditions"

stay, abide, bide

v. dwell; "You can stay with me while you are in town"; "stay a bit longer--the day is still young"

survive, outlive, outlast

v. live longer than; "She outlived her husband by many years"

occupy, inhabit

v. be present in; be inside of

tenant

v. occupy as a tenant

staff, provide with staff

v. provide with staff; "This position is not always staffed"

stay, quell, appease

v. overcome or allay; "quell my hunger"

hot

adj. connected to a power source: "a live wire"; "a hot wire"

living, animate

adj. endowed with animal life as distinguished from plant life; "we are animate beings"

live, alive, eruptive

adj. actively spewing out lava; "a geyser is an intermittently eruptive hot spring"

living, live

adj. possessing life; "the happiest person alive"; "the nerve is alive"; "doctors are working hard to keep him alive"; "burned alive"; "a live canary"

living, animate

adj. endowed with animal life as distinguished from plant life; "we are animate beings"

animate, alive

adj. having life or vigor or spirit; "an animated and expressive face"; "animated conversation"; "became very animated when he heard the good news"

spongy, squashy, squishy

adj. easily squashed; resembling a sponge in having soft porous texture and compressibility; "spongy bread"

fleshy, pulpy

adj. like a pulp or overripe; not having stiffness

hold, keep, maintain

v. keep in a certain state, position, or activity; e.g., "keep clean"; "hold in place"; "She always held herself as a lady"; "The students keep me on my toes"

sleep in, live in

v. live in the house where one works; "our babysitter lives in, as it is too far to commute for her"

live out, sleep out

v. work in a house where one does not live; "our cook lives out; he can easily commute from his home"

echoing, reechoing

adj. (of sounds) repeating by reflection; "a hotel with echoing halls"

resonant

adj. inducing resonance; "resonant frequency"

resounding, resonating, reverberating, reverberative

adj. characterized by reverberation; "a resonant voice"; "hear the rolling thunder"

living

adj. (used of minerals or stone) in its natural state and place; not mined or quarried; "carved into the living stone";

viable

adj. capable of life or normal growth and development; "viable seeds"; "a viable fetus"

vital

adj. full of spirit; "a dynamic full of life woman"; "a vital and charismatic leader"; "this whole lively world"

erupting

adj. currently erupting

chewy

adj. (of a consistency) requiring chewing; "chewy caramels"

ductile, malleable, pliable, pliant, tensile, tractile

adj. capable of being shaped or bent or drawn out; "ductile copper"; "malleable metals such as gold"; "they soaked the leather to made it pliable"; "pliant molten glass"; "made of highly tensile steel alloy"

elasticized

adj. made with strands or inserts of elastic; "slacks with an elasticized waistband"

expandable, expandible, expansible, expansile

adj. (of gases) capable of expansion

plastic, fictile, moldable

adj. capable of being molded or modeled (especially of earth or clay or other soft material); "plastic substances such as wax or clay"

flexible, stretchable, stretchy

adj. capable of being easily stretched and resuming former size or shape

rubbery, rubberlike

adj. having an elastic texture resembling rubber in flexibility or toughness

springlike

adj. resembling a spring or the action of a spring

stretch

adj. easily stretched; "stretch hosiery"

viscoelastic

adj. having viscous as well as elastic properties

dead

adj. not showing characteristics of life especially the capacity to sustain life; no longer exerting force or having energy or heat; "Mars is a dead planet"; "a dead battery"; "dead soil"; "dead coals"; "the fire is dead"

recorded

adj. set down or registered in a permanent form especially on film or tape for reproduction; "recorded music"

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