Word Finder - alive

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Having life; living; not dead

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As long as the plant is alive, he will continue to water it.

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In a state of action; in force or operation; existent

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to keep the affections alive

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Busy with activity of many living beings; swarming; thronged; busy.

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Although quite dull during the day, the main street comes alive at night, with many bars and clubs opening.

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Sprightly; lively; brisk.

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Susceptible; easy to impress; having keen feelings, as opposed to apathy

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(as an intensifier) out of all living creatures.

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(only used attributively) Having life; that is alive.

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The post office will not ship live animals.

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Being in existence; actual

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He is a live example of the consequences of excessive drinking.

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Having active properties; being energized.

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Operational; in actual use rather than in testing etc.

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Taken from a living animal.

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live feathers

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Imparting power; having motion.

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a live, or driving, axle

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Still in active play.

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a live ball

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Seen or heard from a broadcast, as it happens.

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The station presented a live news program every evening.

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(of a performance or speech) In person.

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This nightclub has a live band on weekends.

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(entertainment, performing) Recorded in front of an audience and not having been edited after recording.

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a live album

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Of firearms or explosives, capable of causing harm.

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The air force practices dropping live bombs on the uninhabited island.

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(circuitry) Electrically charged or energized, usually indicating that the item may cause electrocution if touched.

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Use caution when working near live wires.

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Being a bet which can be raised by the bettor, usually in reference to a blind or straddle.

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Tommy's blind was live, so he was given the option to raise.

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Featuring humans; not animated, in the phrases “live actors” or “live action”.

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Being in a state of ignition; burning.

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a live coal; live embers

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Full of earnestness; active; wide awake; glowing.

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a live man, or orator

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Vivid; bright.

He was alive and unconscious.

And I?... and he is still alive and gay!

If Papa were alive... would he agree with you? he asked.

Don't forget the Burton boy is alive because of us.

Yet his presence reminded her that he was alive because she had taken another life.

Cross your fingers the group doesn't eat me alive over this.

He was alive when he left my place.

They had given up, deciding that if they hadn't found their bodies, they must still be alive and would find their way back to Ashley.

He is alive, said Napoleon.

Nevertheless, I must tell you that we are alive,--that we reached home safely, and that we speak of you daily, and enjoy your interesting letters very much.

The human was alive and well.

While he looked dead, he was alive enough for his memories to reach her.

Keep them alive until I can go through their minds.

They forget that my whole body is alive to the conditions about me.

Were the others still alive?

Unfortunately, there is no one left alive to salute the LeBlanc and Betsy and I want our adopted daughter Claire to know she is fully a part of our lives.

He hadn't yet reconciled how he felt about seeing his brother alive and in so much pain.

He won't let me out of here alive, I don't think.

He'd only learned the woman he fell for last week was still alive and now he had to let her go.

I wouldn't believe it was alive until I saw it move.

He was alive, after all, and there was some good to him for wanting to make things right.

Look, there may be someone alive and hurt!

Now that she was alive again and survived Darkyn, the hardest part was over.

It was about Katie, when she was in the underworld and you didn't know she was alive, Gabriel clarified.

The ocean breeze made her dress move as if it was alive, and her pink hair swept across her features.

Human-Deidre was alive and healthy.

People were still alive who knew the Wright brothers.

These trees were alive and apparently flourishing at midsummer, and many of them had grown a foot, though completely girdled; but after another winter such were without exception dead.

The pitch pines and shrub oaks about my house, which had so long drooped, suddenly resumed their several characters, looked brighter, greener, and more erect and alive, as if effectually cleansed and restored by the rain.

The first rhinoceros seen alive in Europe since the time when these animals, in common with nearly all the large remarkable beasts of both Africa and Asia, were exhibited in the Roman shows, was of this species.

The spiritual sun is the source of love and intelligence, or life, and the natural sun the source of nature or the receptacles of life; the first is alive, the second dead.

Even then the fear of a "difference" between Monmouth and James, duke of York, exercised men's minds, and every caress or promotion kept the fear alive.

Why hadn't she realized what wonderful parents she had while they were still alive?

What's important is that you're alive.

It's not finished if you, you're wife and California friends are still alive.

She continued to walk, needing to feel the cold to remind her she was still alive.

After they dragged Jen off to confession, the Calvias would stick around and rent the church for the wedding—if Randy was still alive.

Too happy knowing he was alive, Deidre hugged him harder.

After sobbing herself to sleep, she was almost too tired to appreciate the fact he was alive.

You're worth more to me alive.

He.s alive but a frightful mess, and we haven.t been able to identify him.

Even after Dean's rhythmic breathing told her he was sleeping she remained awake, her mind alive with thoughts of their discussion and all that had transpired.

His walk turned to a trot and then a run.  Rhyn ran after him, feeling alive as they raced through the enchanted forest towards a fate he wasn't entirely certain how to handle yet.

Fred prattled excitedly about the Parkside newspaper and baseball cap and how the two finds represented proof Jeffrey Byrne was alive.

As much despair as she felt for each of the forty-three deaths, there would be nothing but doom, disease, and death for her people if she did not stay alive.

She was reported as saying that when the king gave opportunity by leaving England, she would put Mary to death even if she were burnt or flayed alive for it.

Drawing, at last, two pistols from under his coat, he declared that he would not fall alive into the hands of the police who were watching his movements.

Of late years musk-oxen have been exhibited alive in Europe; and two examples, one of which lived from 1899 till 1903, have been brought to England.

So long as Stambolov, the energetic Bulgarian statesman, was alive he succeeded in keeping the Bulgarian element quiet, and the peace of the country was less liable to disturbance.

On the other hand, the absence of leaven may recall primitive practice before its introduction as a domestic luxury; sacral rites generally keep alive primitive custom.