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LIVE WITH
I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Tolerate or accommodate oneself to
Example:
She has learned to live with her husband's little idiosyncrasies
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting
Hypernyms (to "live with" is one way to...):
abide; bear; brook; digest; endure; put up; stand; stick out; stomach; suffer; support; tolerate (put up with something or somebody unpleasant)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Context examples:
Let him live with me in the interchange of kindness, and instead of injury I would bestow every benefit upon him with tears of gratitude at his acceptance.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
There is a nasty frog, said she, at the door, that lifted my ball for me out of the spring this morning: I told him that he should live with me here, thinking that he could never get out of the spring; but there he is at the door, and he wants to come in.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
If human studies validate the findings, the use of the drug could be good news to the more than 70,000 worldwide who live with cystic fibrosis, a disease with no cure and few treatment options.
(Scientists find new approach that shows promise for treating cystic fibrosis, National Institutes of Health)
Family members who live with someone with tuberculosis may be shielded against the highly infectious disease by taking vitamin A. A new study finds that many of those who develop TB are deficient in the nutrient.
(Vitamin A Supplement May Thwart Tuberculosis Infection, Jessica Berman/VOA)
Mr. Weston is such a good-humoured, pleasant, excellent man, that he thoroughly deserves a good wife;—and you would not have had Miss Taylor live with us for ever, and bear all my odd humours, when she might have a house of her own?
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
But, to be sure, Lucy would not give ear to such kind of talking; so she told him directly (with a great deal about sweet and love, you know, and all that—Oh, la! one can't repeat such kind of things you know)—she told him directly, she had not the least mind in the world to be off, for she could live with him upon a trifle, and how little so ever he might have, she should be very glad to have it all, you know, or something of the kind.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
A pauper himself, a slave to the money-lender, he knew himself the superior of those he met at the Morses'; and, when his one decent suit of clothes was out of pawn, he moved among them a lord of life, quivering with a sense of outrage akin to what a prince would suffer if condemned to live with goat-herds.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
As I was looking about for a secure landing-place, I saw a sail to the north-north-east, which appearing every minute more visible, I was in some doubt whether I should wait for them or not; but at last my detestation of the Yahoo race prevailed: and turning my canoe, I sailed and paddled together to the south, and got into the same creek whence I set out in the morning, choosing rather to trust myself among these barbarians, than live with European Yahoos.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
“I ain't a person to live with them as has had money left. Things go too contrary with me. I had better be a riddance.”
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
He came himself to live with me in the character of a resident patient.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
