- life
- n.
1) to lead a life (to lead a busy life)
2) to prolong; save a life
3) to devote one's life (to smt.)
4) to spend one's life (doing smt.)
5) to give, lay down, sacrifice; risk one's life
6) to claim, snuff out, take a life (she took her own life; the accident claimed many lives)
7) to ruin smb.'s life
8) to bring; restore smb. to life
9) to come to life; to take on life (the statue took on life in the sculptor's skilled hands)
10) an active; ascetic, austere; busy, hectic; charmed; cloistered; difficult, hard, miserable, tough; dissipated, dissolute; dull; easy; exciting; full; happy; idyllic; lonely, solitary; long; monastic; peaceful, quiet, serene; short; simple; stormy, turbulent life
11) campus (esp. AE); city; civilian; country, rural; married; modern; nomadic; political; public life (in civilian life the sergeant was a teacher; married life seems to agree with them; the hunters led a nomadic life)
12) smb.'s family, home; love, personal; private; sex; social life (to lead a hectic social life; in private life she was very easygoing)
13) animal; bird; human; marine; plant life
14) smb.'s adult life
15) the shelf life (of smt. being sold in a store)
16) in life (early in life)
17) (misc.) in the prime of life; the facts of life; the accused got life ('the accused was sentenced to life imprisonment'); to show signs of life; (to hang on) for dear life ('with all one's energy'); not on your life ('not for anything in the world'); to start a new life; to make a new life for oneself; to breathe (new) life into smt.; to bring back to life; to stake one's life on smt.; a way of life
* * *[laɪf]a way of lifeasceticasceticaustereaustereciviliancloistereddissipateddissolutedullhecticidylliclay downmodemmonasticnomadicpeacefulpersonalplant lifepoliticalrestore smb. to liferisk one's liferuralsave a lifeserenesnuff outsolitarystormythe facts of lifeto breathe (new) life into smt.to bring back to lifeto make a new life for oneselfto show signs of lifeto stake one's life on smt.to start a new lifeturbulent lifenot on your life ('not for anything in the world')the accused got life ('the accused was sentenced to life imprisonment')(to hang on) for dear life ('with all one's energy')public life (in civilian life the sergeant was a teacher; married life seems to agree with them; the hunters led a nomadic life)take a life (she took her own life; the accident claimed many lives)to take on life (the statue took on life in the sculptor's skilled hands)social life (to lead a hectic social life; in private life she was very easygoing)(misc.) in the prime of lifean activesmb. 's adult lifesmb. 's familyto bringto claimto come to lifeto giveto prolongto ruin smb. 's lifeto spend one's life (doing smt.)in life (early in life)campus (esp. AE)the shelf life (of smt. being sold in a store)to lead a life (to lead a busy life)to devote one's life (to smt.)
Combinatory dictionary. 2013.
