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| Grammar : Verb |
| Spell : liv |
| Phonetic Transcription : lɪv |
Definition of live down
Origin :- Old English lifian (Anglian), libban (West Saxon) "to be, to live, have life; to experience," also "to supply oneself with food, to pass life (in some condition)," from Proto-Germanic *liben (cf. Old Norse lifa "to live, remain," Old Frisian libba, German leben, Gothic liban "to live"), from PIE root *leip- "to remain, continue" (cf. Greek liparein "to persist, persevere;" see leave). Meaning "to make a residence, dwell" is from c.1200. Related: Lived; living.
- According to the Dutch Prouerbe ... Leuen ende laetan leuen, To liue and to let others liue. [Malynes, 1622]
- To live it up "live gaily and extravagantly" is from 1903. To live up to "act in accordance with" is 1690s, from earlier live up "live on a high (moral or mental) level" (1680s). To live (something) down "outwear (some slander or embarrassment)" is from 1842. To live with "cohabit as husband and wife" is attested from 1749; sense of "to put up with" is attested from 1937. Expression live and learn is attested from c.1620.
- As in survive : verb continue to live
- Surely you do not live down in the dark earth where there is no sunshine?
- Extract from : « Opera Stories from Wagner » by Florence Akin
- How would you like to live down there in the deep green water?
- Extract from : « Tales From Two Hemispheres » by Hjalmar Hjorth Boysen
- Well, that is all very well for Jill to do; she has a real heartache to live down.
- Extract from : « The Gorgeous Girl » by Nalbro Bartley
- To live down the past and erase the errors, live boldly the present.
- Extract from : « Evening Round Up » by William Crosbie Hunter
- You know the extras all live down in the big bungalow I had built for them.
- Extract from : « The Moving Picture Girls in War Plays » by Laura Lee Hope
- They are men who live down through to the spirit and the poetry of their calling.
- Extract from : « The Voice of the Machines » by Gerald Stanley Lee
- "Oh, I don't like it that my Mama should live down here," she declared.
- Extract from : « The Rich Little Poor Boy » by Eleanor Gates
- Morley insisted that I should live down here, under his eye.
- Extract from : « A Coin of Edward VII » by Fergus Hume
- Did the folks at Rackville think they might live down near the bay?
- Extract from : « The Rover Boys Under Canvas » by Arthur M. Winfield
- Rum as the name of our old village where we used to live down in Essex.
- Extract from : « Dead Man's Land » by George Manville Fenn
Synonyms for live down
- be extant
- be left
- bear
- carry on
- carry through
- come through
- cut it
- endure
- exist
- get on
- get through
- go all the way
- go the limit
- handle
- hold out
- keep
- keep afloat
- last
- live
- live down
- live on
- live out
- live through
- make a comeback
- make the cut
- outlast
- outlive
- outwear
- persevere
- persist
- pull out of it
- pull through
- recover
- remain
- remain alive
- revive
- ride out
- see through
- stand up
- subsist
- suffer
- sustain
- tough it out
- weather
- withstand
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