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Sense: Verb: exist
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exist Collocations, breathe Collocations, be alive, be living, be Collocations, have life, survive Collocations, live and breathe, be in existence
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die Collocations, perish, pass away, be dead, cease to exist, go to heaven, snuff it , kick the bucket
Sense: Verb: inhabit - followed by 'in', etc.
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inhabit Collocations, reside Collocations, dwell Collocations , abide Collocations , occupy Collocations, squat Collocations, lay your hat , make your home in, call sth home
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be homeless, get evicted, get thrown out, have nowhere to live, walk the streets, relocate Collocations, move out, look after
Sense: Verb: enjoy life
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enjoy life, enjoy life to the full, live life to the full, experience life to the full, make the most of life, make every moment count, get a great deal from life, live it up , live the high life , thrive Collocations
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suffer Collocations, endure pain, go through hard time, be doomed, starve Collocations, live hand-to-mouth, get into debt, lead a life of misery, have a hard-knock life , just about survive, get by
Sense: Verb: gain subsistence
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support yourself, earn a living, get by, subsist, survive Collocations, manage Collocations, make ends meet, keep the wolf from the door , eke out a living, eke out an existence, earn a crust , maintain yourself, provide for your needs
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lose your job, become unemployed, get sacked, be a couch potato , sponge Collocations, live on handouts, bum around
Sense: Verb: persist in memory - often followed by 'on'
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prevail Collocations, remain Collocations, endure Collocations, survive Collocations, last Collocations, be remembered, persist, go on, never die, live forever, be engraved in sb's memory, be forever in our hearts
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Sense: Adjective: not dead
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alive Collocations, living Collocations, with the living, breathing Collocations, surviving, not dead
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dead Collocations, passed away, extinct Collocations, breathless, lifeless, defunct, late Collocations, departed, deceased Collocations, six feet under
Sense: Adjective: active - volcano, electricity, etc.
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Sense: Adjective: burning - coals, etc.
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burning Collocations, glowing Collocations, hot Collocations, blazing Collocations, red-hot, smoldering , smouldering
Sense: Adjective: not taped or filmed
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broadcast direct, live and direct, direct Collocations, real-time, happening in real time, as it happens
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