Verb

(liv)

(lb) To be alive; to have life.

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(lb) To have permanent residence somewhere, to inhabit, to reside.

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*:Athelstan Arundel walked home all the way, foaming and raging. No omnibus, cab, or conveyance ever built could contain a young man in such a rage. His mother lived at Pembridge Square, which is four good measured miles from Lincoln's Inn.

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, title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=It was a joy to snatch some brief respite, and find himself in the rectory drawing–room. Listening here was as pleasant as talking; just to watch was pleasant. The young priests who lived here wore cassocks and birettas; their faces were fine and mild, yet really strong, like the rector's face; and in their intercourse with him and his wife they seemed to be brothers.}}

(lb) To survive; to persevere; to continue.

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To cope.

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(lb) To spend, as one's life; to pass; to maintain; to continue in, constantly or habitually.

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*{{quote-news, year=2011, date=December 19, author=Kerry Brown, title= Kim Jong-il obituary, work=The Guardian

, passage=By 1980, South Korea had overtaken its northern neighbour, and was well on its way to being one of the Asian tigers – high-performing economies, with democratic movements ultimately winning power in the 1990s. The withdrawal of most Soviet aid in 1991, with the fall of the Soviet empire, pushed North Korea further down. Kim Il-sung had held a genuine place on North Korean people's affections. His son was regarded as a shadowy playboy, with rumours circulating over the years that he imported Russian and Chinese prostitutes, and lived a life of profligacy and excess.}}

*{{quote-magazine, title= Towards the end of poverty

, date=2013-06-01, volume=407, issue=8838, page=11, magazine=(The Economist) , passage=But poverty’s scourge is fiercest below $1.25 (the average of the 15 poorest countries’ own poverty lines, measured in 2005 dollars and adjusted for differences in purchasing power): people below that level live lives that are poor, nasty, brutish and short.}}

(lb) To act habitually in conformity with; to practice.

*(John Foxe) (1516/7-1587)

*:to live the Gospel

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To outlast danger; to float; said of a ship, boat, etc.

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*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

*:a strong mast that lived upon the sea

Verb

To stop living; to become dead; to undergo death.

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#* 1839 , Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist , Penguin 1985, page 87:

"What did she die of, Work'us?" said Noah. "Of a broken heart, some of our old nurses told me," replied Oliver.

#* 2000 , Stephen King, On Writing , Pocket Books 2002, page 85:

In 1971 or 72, Mom's sister Carolyn Weimer died of breast cancer.

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#* 1865 , British Medical Journal , 4 Mar 1865, page 213:

She lived several weeks; but afterwards she died from epilepsy, to which malady she had been previously subject.

#* 2007 , Frank Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson, Sandworms of Dune , Tor 2007, page 191:

"Or all of them will die from the plague. Even if most of the candidates succumb. . ."

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#* 1961 , Joseph Heller, Catch-22 , Simon & Schuster 1999, page 232:

Englishmen are dying' for England, Americans are '''dying''' for America, Germans are '''dying''' for Germany, Russians are ' dying for Russia. There are now fifty or sixty countries fighting in this war.

#* 2003 , Tara Herivel & Paul Wright (editors), Prison Nation , Routledge 2003, page 187:

Less than three days later, Johnson lapsed into a coma in his jail cell and died for lack of insulin.

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#* 1600 , William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing , Act III, Scene I:

Therefore let Benedicke like covered fire, / Consume away in sighes, waste inwardly: / It were a better death, to die' with mockes, / Which is as bad as ' die with tickling.

#* 1830 , Joseph Smith, The Book of Mormon , Richards 1854, page 337:

And there were some who died with fevers, which at some seasons of the year was very frequent in the land.

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She died with dignity.

To stop living and undergo (a specified death).

He died a hero's death.

They died a thousand deaths.

(figuratively) To yearn intensely.

* 1598 , (Shakespeare), (Much Ado About Nothing), Act III, Scene II:

Yes, and his ill conditions; and in despite of all, dies for him.

* 2004 Paul Joseph Draus, Consumed in the city: observing tuberculosis at century's end - Page 168

I could see that he was dying, dying' for a cigarette, '''dying''' for a fix maybe, ' dying for a little bit of freedom, but trapped in a hospital bed and a sick body.

(idiomatic) To be utterly cut off by family or friends, as if dead.

The day our sister eloped, she died to our mother.

(figuratively) To become spiritually dead; to lose hope.

He died a little inside each time she refused to speak to him.

(colloquial) To be mortified or shocked by a situation.

If anyone sees me wearing this ridiculous outfit, I'll die .

(intransitive, of a, machine) to stop working, to break down.

My car died in the middle of the freeway this morning.

(intransitive, of a, computer program) To abort, to terminate (as an error condition).

To perish; to cease to exist; to become lost or extinct.

* Spectator

letting the secret die within his own breast

* Tennyson

Great deeds cannot die .

To sink; to faint; to pine; to languish, with weakness, discouragement, love, etc.

* Bible, 1 Samuel xxv. 37

His heart died within, and he became as a stone.

To become indifferent; to cease to be subject.

to die to pleasure or to sin

(architecture) To disappear gradually in another surface, as where mouldings are lost in a sloped or curved face.

To become vapid, flat, or spiritless, as liquor.

(of a stand-up comedian or a joke) To fail to evoke laughter from the audience.

Then there was that time I died onstage in Montreal...