life | (noun) living things collectively | - |
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(noun) animation and energy in action or expression | Synonyms: liveliness, spirit, sprightliness |
(noun) the experience of being alive; the course of human events and activities | Synonyms: living |
(noun) an account of the series of events making up a person's life | Synonyms: biography, life history, life story |
(noun) a motive for living | - |
(noun) a living person | - |
(noun) the organic phenomenon that distinguishes living organisms from nonliving ones | - |
(noun) the condition of living or the state of being alive | Synonyms: aliveness, animation, living |
(noun) a characteristic state or mode of living | - |
(noun) the course of existence of an individual; the actions and events that occur in living | - |
(noun) the period during which something is functional (as between birth and death) | Synonyms: life-time, lifespan, lifetime |
(noun) the period between birth and the present time | - |
(noun) the period from the present until death | - |
(noun) a prison term lasting as long as the prisoner lives | Synonyms: life sentence |
lifeblood | (noun) an essential or life-giving force | - |
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(noun) the blood considered as the seat of vitality | - |
lifeboat | (noun) a strong sea boat designed to rescue people from a sinking ship | - |
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lifeguard | (noun) an attendant employed at a beach or pool to protect swimmers from accidents | Synonyms: lifesaver |
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lifehack | (verb) make one's day-to-day activities more efficient | - |
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lifeless | (adjective) not having the capacity to support life | - |
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(adjective) destitute or having been emptied of life or living beings | - |
(adjective) lacking animation or excitement or activity | - |
(adjective) deprived of life; no longer living | Synonyms: exanimate |
lifelessly | (adverb) as if dead | Synonyms: deadly |
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(adverb) without animation or vitality | - |
(adverb) in a lifeless manner | - |
lifelessness | (noun) not having life | Synonyms: inanimateness |
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(noun) a state of no motion or movement | Synonyms: motionlessness, stillness |
lifelike | (adjective) evoking lifelike images within the mind | Synonyms: graphic, pictorial, vivid |
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(adjective) free from artificiality | Synonyms: natural |
lifeline | (noun) line thrown from a vessel that people can cling to in order to save themselves from drowning | - |
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(noun) line that raises or lowers a deep-sea diver | - |
(noun) support that enables people to survive or to continue doing something (often by providing an essential connection) | - |
(noun) a crease on the palm; its length is said by palmists to indicate how long you will live | Synonyms: life line, line of life |
lifelong | (adjective) continuing through life | Synonyms: womb-to-tomb |
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lifer | (noun) a prisoner serving a term of life imprisonment | - |
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lifesaver | (noun) a life preserver in the form of a ring of buoyant material | Synonyms: life belt, life buoy, life ring |
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(noun) an attendant employed at a beach or pool to protect swimmers from accidents | Synonyms: lifeguard |
lifesaving | (noun) saving the lives of drowning persons | - |
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lifesize | (adjective) being of the same size as an original | Synonyms: full-size, life-size, life-sized |
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lifespan | (noun) the period during which something is functional (as between birth and death) | Synonyms: life-time, life, lifetime |
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lifestyle | (noun) a manner of living that reflects the person's values and attitudes | Synonyms: life-style, life style, modus vivendi |
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lifetime | (noun) the period during which something is functional (as between birth and death) | Synonyms: life-time, life, lifespan |
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lifework | (noun) the principal work of your career | - |
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lift | (noun) the act of raising something | Synonyms: heave, raise |
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(noun) plastic surgery to remove wrinkles and other signs of aging from your face; an incision is made near the hair line and skin is pulled back and excess tissue is excised | Synonyms: cosmetic surgery, face lift, face lifting, facelift, nip and tuck, rhytidectomy, rhytidoplasty |
(noun) the act of giving temporary assistance | - |
(noun) a ride in a car | - |
(noun) transportation of people or goods by air (especially when other means of access are unavailable) | Synonyms: airlift |
(noun) lifting device consisting of a platform or cage that is raised and lowered mechanically in a vertical shaft in order to move people from one floor to another in a building | Synonyms: elevator |
(noun) a powered conveyance that carries skiers up a hill | Synonyms: ski lift, ski tow |
(noun) one of the layers forming the heel of a shoe or boot | - |
(noun) a device worn in a shoe or boot to make the wearer look taller or to correct a shortened leg | - |
(noun) the event of something being raised upward | Synonyms: elevation, raising |
(noun) a wave that lifts the surface of the water or ground | Synonyms: rise |
(noun) the component of the aerodynamic forces acting on an airfoil that opposes gravity | Synonyms: aerodynamic lift |
(verb) perform cosmetic surgery on someone's face | Synonyms: face-lift |
(verb) remove from a surface | - |
(verb) put an end to | Synonyms: raise |
(verb) remove (hair) by scalping | - |
(verb) rise upward, as from pressure or moisture | - |
(verb) invigorate or heighten | Synonyms: raise |
(verb) raise in rank or condition | Synonyms: elevate, raise |
(verb) remove from a seedbed or from a nursery | - |
(verb) take off or away by decreasing | - |
(verb) cancel officially | Synonyms: annul, countermand, overturn, repeal, rescind, reverse, revoke, vacate |
(verb) call to stop the hunt or to retire, as of hunting dogs | - |
(verb) make audible | - |
(verb) take hold of something and move it to a different location | - |
(verb) raise or haul up with or as if with mechanical help | Synonyms: hoist, wind |
(verb) take (root crops) out of the ground | - |
(verb) fly people or goods to or from places not accessible by other means | Synonyms: airlift |
(verb) raise from a lower to a higher position | Synonyms: bring up, elevate, get up, raise |
(verb) move upwards | Synonyms: raise |
(verb) move upward | Synonyms: arise, come up, go up, move up, rise, uprise |
(verb) make off with belongings of others | Synonyms: abstract, cabbage, filch, hook, nobble, pilfer, pinch, purloin, snarf, sneak, swipe |
(verb) take without referencing from someone else's writing or speech; of intellectual property | Synonyms: plagiarise, plagiarize |
(verb) pay off (a mortgage) | - |
(verb) take illegally | Synonyms: rustle |
(verb) rise up | Synonyms: rear, rise |
lifted | (adjective) held up in the air | Synonyms: upraised |
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lifter | (noun) an athlete who lifts barbells | Synonyms: weightlifter |
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(noun) a thief who steals goods that are in a store | Synonyms: booster, shoplifter |
liftgate | (noun) a sloping rear car door that is lifted to open | Synonyms: hatch, hatchback, hatchback door |
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liftman | (noun) a man employed to operate an elevator | Synonyms: elevator boy, elevator man |
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liftoff | (noun) the initial ascent of a rocket from its launching pad | - |
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