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LIVE ON
I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Continue to live and avoid dying
Example:
One crash victim died, the other lived
Synonyms:
endure; go; hold out; hold up; last; live; live on; survive
Classified under:
Verbs of being, having, spatial relations
"Live on" entails doing...:
be; live (have life, be alive)
Verb group:
be; live (have life, be alive)
exist; live; subsist; survive (support oneself)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "live on"):
hold up; hold water; stand up (resist or withstand wear, criticism, etc.)
perennate (survive from season to season, of plants)
live out (live out one's life; live to the end)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
Sentence example:
The business is going to live on
Context examples:
You live on an income which your father earned.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
They live on people's heads and feed on their blood.
(Head Lice, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
If microbes can live in the most extreme regions on Earth, scientists say it is quite possible they can live on other celestial bodies.
(Scientists: Life Can Thrive in Most Extreme Environments, George Putic/VOA)
You saw her with the Campbells, when she was the equal of every body she mixed with, but here she is with a poor old grandmother, who has barely enough to live on.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
She left it to himself to recollect, that Mrs Smith was not the only widow in Bath between thirty and forty, with little to live on, and no surname of dignity.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
A very large group of microscopic fungi that live on plant or animal matter.
(Mold, NCI Thesaurus)
The idea that chocolate might be good for you stems from studies of the Kuna Indians, who live on islands off the coast of Panama.
(Can Chocolate Really Be Good for You?, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
The three types of lice that live on humans are head lice, body lice (also called clothes lice), and pubic lice ("crabs").
(Lice, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
The study showed that, during Mars's Noachian period (4.1–3.7 billion years ago), radiolysis, the process by which radiation splits water molecules apart, produced enough hydrogen gas (H2) for microbial organisms to live on so long as they remained within the area just beneath the cryosphere, the SHZ (subcryospheric highly-fractured zone).
(Study suggests Mars hosted life-sustaining habitat for millions of years, Wikinews)
The interest of two thousand pounds—how can a man live on it? —and when to that is added the recollection, that he might, but for his own folly, within three months have been in the receipt of two thousand, five hundred a-year (for Miss Morton has thirty thousand pounds,) I cannot picture to myself a more wretched condition.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
