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How to sign: support oneself
"he could barely exist on such a low wage"; "Can you live on $2000 a month in New York City?"; "Many people in the world have to subsist on $1 a day";
Similiar / Same: subsist, exist, survive
Within this category: breathe, freewheel, indwell
How to sign: make one's home or live in
"She resides officially in Iceland"; "I live in a 200-year old house"; "These people inhabited all the islands that are now deserted"; "The plains are sparsely populated";
See also: sleep out, live in, live out, sleep in
Similiar / Same: shack, reside, inhabit, populate, domicile, domiciliate, people, dwell
Categories: be
Within this category: board, camp, cohabit, lodge, neighbor, occupy, overpopulate, rusticate
How to sign: actually being performed at the time of hearing or viewing
"a live television program"; "brought to you live from Lincoln Center"; "live entertainment involves performers actually in the physical presence of a live audience";
Similiar / Same: unrecorded
How to sign: continue to live; endure or last
"We went without water and food for 3 days"; "These superstitions survive in the backwaters of America"; "The racecar driver lived through several very serious accidents";
Similiar / Same: survive, live on, last, endure, hold up, hold out, go
