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viure — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • abide verb To accept and follow a rule, decision, or agreement (used with "by").
  • live verb To be alive; to have life.

Senses

viure is used for these senses in English:

  • abide (transitive) To bear patiently. [from late 15th c.]
  • abide (transitive) To pay for; to stand the consequences of. [from late 16th c.]
  • abide (intransitive, obsolete) To wait in expectation. [mid-12th–mid-17th c.]
  • abide (intransitive, archaic, Scotland) To stay; to continue in a place; to remain stable or fixed in some state or condition; to be left. [from ca. 1150—1350]

abide — full definition

  1. verb To accept and follow a rule, decision, or agreement (used with "by").
  2. verb To tolerate or put up with something, especially in negative statements.
  3. verb (literary) To remain or continue in a place; to stay.

live — full definition

  1. verb To be alive; to have life.
  2. verb To reside somewhere; to make one's home in a place.
  3. verb To spend one's life in a particular way, or to experience life fully.
  4. adj Alive, or currently active/in use (as opposed to recorded, tested, or switched off).
  5. adj Broadcast or performed in real time, in front of an audience, rather than pre-recorded.

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