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Live

To be alive; to have life; to have, as an animal or a plant, the capacity of assimilating matter as food, and to be dependent on such assimilation for a continuance of existence; as, animals and plants that live to a great age are long in reaching maturity.

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Similar meaning 20

Active 84% connected

Having the power or quality of acting; causing change; communicating action or motion; acting; -- opposed to passive, that receives; as, certain acti…

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Active 84% connected

Having the power or quality of acting; causing change; communicating action or motion; acting; -- opposed to passive, that receives; as, certain acti…

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Charged 84% connected

of Charge

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Charged 84% connected

of Charge

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Current 84% connected

Running or moving rapidly.

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Current 84% connected

Running or moving rapidly.

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Elastic 84% connected

Springing back; having a power or inherent property of returning to the form from which a substance is bent, drawn, pressed, or twisted; springy; hav…

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Elastic 84% connected

Springing back; having a power or inherent property of returning to the form from which a substance is bent, drawn, pressed, or twisted; springy; hav…

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Lively 84% connected

Endowed with or manifesting life; living.

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Lively 84% connected

Endowed with or manifesting life; living.

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Living 84% connected

of Live

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Living 84% connected

of Live

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Loaded 84% connected

of Load

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Loaded 84% connected

of Load

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Reverberant 84% connected

Having the quality of reverberation; reverberating.

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Reverberant 84% connected

Having the quality of reverberation; reverberating.

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Viable 84% connected

Capable of living; born alive and with such form and development of organs as to be capable of living; -- said of a newborn, or a prematurely born, i…

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Viable 84% connected

Capable of living; born alive and with such form and development of organs as to be capable of living; -- said of a newborn, or a prematurely born, i…

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Vital 84% connected

Belonging or relating to life, either animal or vegetable; as, vital energies; vital functions; vital actions.

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Vital 84% connected

Belonging or relating to life, either animal or vegetable; as, vital energies; vital functions; vital actions.

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Verb group 14

Be 84% connected

To exist actually, or in the world of fact; to have ex/stence.

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Be 84% connected

To exist actually, or in the world of fact; to have ex/stence.

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Endure 84% connected

To continue in the same state without perishing; to last; to remain.

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Endure 84% connected

To continue in the same state without perishing; to last; to remain.

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Exist 84% connected

To be as a fact and not as a mode; to have an actual or real being, whether material or spiritual.

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Exist 84% connected

To be as a fact and not as a mode; to have an actual or real being, whether material or spiritual.

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Go 84% connected

Gone.

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Go 84% connected

Gone.

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Last 84% connected

of Last, to endure, contracted from lasteth.

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Last 84% connected

of Last, to endure, contracted from lasteth.

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Subsist 84% connected

To be; to have existence; to inhere.

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Subsist 84% connected

To be; to have existence; to inhere.

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Survive 84% connected

To live beyond the life or existence of; to live longer than; to outlive; to outlast; as, to survive a person or an event.

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Survive 84% connected

To live beyond the life or existence of; to live longer than; to outlive; to outlast; as, to survive a person or an event.

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Manner of action 35

Bachelor 76% connected

A man of any age who has not been married.

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Ball 76% connected

Any round or roundish body or mass; a sphere or globe; as, a ball of twine; a ball of snow.

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Bivouac 76% connected

The watch of a whole army by night, when in danger of surprise or attack.

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Board 76% connected

A piece of timber sawed thin, and of considerable length and breadth as compared with the thickness, -- used for building, etc.

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Breathe 76% connected

To respire; to inhale and exhale air; hence;, to live.

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Buccaneer 76% connected

A robber upon the sea; a pirate; -- a term applied especially to the piratical adventurers who made depredations on the Spaniards in America in the 1…

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Camp 76% connected

The ground or spot on which tents, huts, etc., are erected for shelter, as for an army or for lumbermen, etc.

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Cohabit 76% connected

To inhabit or reside in company, or in the same place or country.

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Dissipate 76% connected

To scatter completely; to disperse and cause to disappear; -- used esp. of the dispersion of things that can never again be collected or restored.

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Domicile 76% connected

An abode or mansion; a place of permanent residence, either of an individual or a family.

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Domiciliate 76% connected

To establish in a permanent residence; to domicile.

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Drift 76% connected

A driving; a violent movement.

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Encamp 76% connected

To form and occupy a camp; to prepare and settle in temporary habitations, as tents or huts; to halt on a march, pitch tents, or form huts, and remai…

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Lodge 76% connected

A shelter in which one may rest; as: (a) A shed; a rude cabin; a hut; as, an Indian's lodge.

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Move 76% connected

To cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion; to carry, convey, draw, or push from one place to another; to impel; to stir; as…

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Neighbor 76% connected

A person who lives near another; one whose abode is not far off.

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Neighbour 76% connected

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Nest 76% connected

The bed or receptacle prepared by a fowl for holding her eggs and for hatching and rearing her young.

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Occupy 76% connected

To take or hold possession of; to hold or keep for use; to possess.

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Outlast 76% connected

To exceed in duration; to survive; to endure longer than.

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Outlive 76% connected

To live beyond, or longer than; to survive.

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People 76% connected

The body of persons who compose a community, tribe, nation, or race; an aggregate of individuals forming a whole; a community; a nation.

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Pig 76% connected

A piggin.

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Relive 76% connected

To live again; to revive.

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Reside 76% connected

To dwell permanently or for a considerable time; to have a settled abode for a time; to abide continuosly; to have one's domicile of home; to remain…

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Room 76% connected

Unobstructed spase; space which may be occupied by or devoted to any object; compass; extent of place, great or small; as, there is not room for a ho…

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Shack 76% connected

To shed or fall, as corn or grain at harvest.

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Survive 76% connected

To live beyond the life or existence of; to live longer than; to outlive; to outlast; as, to survive a person or an event.

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Swing 76% connected

To move to and fro, as a body suspended in the air; to wave; to vibrate; to oscillate.

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Taste 76% connected

To try by the touch; to handle; as, to taste a bow.

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Tenant 76% connected

One who holds or possesses lands, or other real estate, by any kind of right, whether in fee simple, in common, in severalty, for life, for years, or…

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Tent 76% connected

A kind of wine of a deep red color, chiefly from Galicia or Malaga in Spain; -- called also tent wine, and tinta.

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Unlive 76% connected

To //ve in a contrary manner, as a life; to live in a manner contrary to.

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Vegetate 76% connected

To grow, as plants, by nutriment imbibed by means of roots and leaves; to start into growth; to sprout; to germinate.

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Wanton 76% connected

Untrained; undisciplined; unrestrained; hence, loose; free; luxuriant; roving; sportive.

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Be 76% connected

To exist actually, or in the world of fact; to have ex/stence.

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Continue 76% connected

To remain in a given place or condition; to remain in connection with; to abide; to stay.

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Exist 76% connected

To be as a fact and not as a mode; to have an actual or real being, whether material or spiritual.

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Experience 76% connected

Trial, as a test or experiment.

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Keep 76% connected

To care; to desire.

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Proceed 76% connected

To move, pass, or go forward or onward; to advance; to continue or renew motion begun; as, to proceed on a journey.

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See 76% connected

A seat; a site; a place where sovereign power is exercised.

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Livable 74% connected

Such as can be lived.

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Livable 74% connected

Such as can be lived.

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Liver 74% connected

One who, or that which, lives.

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Liver 74% connected

One who, or that which, lives.

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Living 74% connected

of Live

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Living 74% connected

of Live

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Survivor 74% connected

One who survives or outlives another person, or any time, event, or thing.

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Survivor 74% connected

One who survives or outlives another person, or any time, event, or thing.

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Entails 2

Be 72% connected

To exist actually, or in the world of fact; to have ex/stence.

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Exist 72% connected

To be as a fact and not as a mode; to have an actual or real being, whether material or spiritual.

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Active 66% connected

Having the power or quality of acting; causing change; communicating action or motion; acting; -- opposed to passive, that receives; as, certain acti…

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Active 66% connected

Having the power or quality of acting; causing change; communicating action or motion; acting; -- opposed to passive, that receives; as, certain acti…

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Animate 66% connected

To give natural life to; to make alive; to quicken; as, the soul animates the body.

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Animate 66% connected

To give natural life to; to make alive; to quicken; as, the soul animates the body.

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Keep 66% connected

To care; to desire.

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Keep 66% connected

To care; to desire.

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Animation 66% connected

The act of animating, or giving life or spirit; the state of being animate or alive.

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Animation 66% connected

The act of animating, or giving life or spirit; the state of being animate or alive.

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Life 66% connected

The state of being which begins with generation, birth, or germination, and ends with death; also, the time during which this state continues; that s…

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Life 66% connected

The state of being which begins with generation, birth, or germination, and ends with death; also, the time during which this state continues; that s…

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Vitality 66% connected

The quality or state of being vital; the principle of life; vital force; animation; as, the vitality of eggs or vegetable seeds; the vitality of an e…

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Vitality 66% connected

The quality or state of being vital; the principle of life; vital force; animation; as, the vitality of eggs or vegetable seeds; the vitality of an e…

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Synonym 17

Alive 92% connected

Having life, in opposition to dead; living; being in a state in which the organs perform their functions; as, an animal or a plant which is alive.

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Be 92% connected

To exist actually, or in the world of fact; to have ex/stence.

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Dwell 92% connected

To delay; to linger.

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Endure 92% connected

To continue in the same state without perishing; to last; to remain.

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Exist 92% connected

To be as a fact and not as a mode; to have an actual or real being, whether material or spiritual.

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Experience 92% connected

Trial, as a test or experiment.

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Go 92% connected

Gone.

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Hot 92% connected

of Hight

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Inhabit 92% connected

To live or dwell in; to occupy, as a place of settled residence; as, wild beasts inhabit the forest; men inhabit cities and houses.

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Know 92% connected

Knee.

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Last 92% connected

of Last, to endure, contracted from lasteth.

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Lively 92% connected

Endowed with or manifesting life; living.

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Populate 92% connected

Populous.

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Resilient 92% connected

Leaping back; rebounding; recoiling.

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Springy 92% connected

Resembling, having the qualities of, or pertaining to, a spring; elastic; as, springy steel; a springy step.

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Subsist 92% connected

To be; to have existence; to inhere.

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Survive 92% connected

To live beyond the life or existence of; to live longer than; to outlive; to outlast; as, to survive a person or an event.

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Antonym 4

Dead 94% connected

Deprived of life; -- opposed to alive and living; reduced to that state of a being in which the organs of motion and life have irrevocably ceased to…

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Dead 94% connected

Deprived of life; -- opposed to alive and living; reduced to that state of a being in which the organs of motion and life have irrevocably ceased to…

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