Antonyms for live down


Grammar : Verb
Spell : liv
Phonetic Transcription : lɪv


Definition of live down

Origin :
  • Old English lifian (Anglian), libban (West Saxon) "to be, to live, have life; to experience," also "to supply oneself with food, to pass life (in some condition)," from Proto-Germanic *liben (cf. Old Norse lifa "to live, remain," Old Frisian libba, German leben, Gothic liban "to live"), from PIE root *leip- "to remain, continue" (cf. Greek liparein "to persist, persevere;" see leave). Meaning "to make a residence, dwell" is from c.1200. Related: Lived; living.
  • According to the Dutch Prouerbe ... Leuen ende laetan leuen, To liue and to let others liue. [Malynes, 1622]
  • To live it up "live gaily and extravagantly" is from 1903. To live up to "act in accordance with" is 1690s, from earlier live up "live on a high (moral or mental) level" (1680s). To live (something) down "outwear (some slander or embarrassment)" is from 1842. To live with "cohabit as husband and wife" is attested from 1749; sense of "to put up with" is attested from 1937. Expression live and learn is attested from c.1620.
  • As in survive : verb continue to live
Example sentences :
  • Surely you do not live down in the dark earth where there is no sunshine?
  • Extract from : « Opera Stories from Wagner » by Florence Akin
  • How would you like to live down there in the deep green water?
  • Extract from : « Tales From Two Hemispheres » by Hjalmar Hjorth Boysen
  • Well, that is all very well for Jill to do; she has a real heartache to live down.
  • Extract from : « The Gorgeous Girl » by Nalbro Bartley
  • To live down the past and erase the errors, live boldly the present.
  • Extract from : « Evening Round Up » by William Crosbie Hunter
  • You know the extras all live down in the big bungalow I had built for them.
  • Extract from : « The Moving Picture Girls in War Plays » by Laura Lee Hope
  • They are men who live down through to the spirit and the poetry of their calling.
  • Extract from : « The Voice of the Machines » by Gerald Stanley Lee
  • "Oh, I don't like it that my Mama should live down here," she declared.
  • Extract from : « The Rich Little Poor Boy » by Eleanor Gates
  • Morley insisted that I should live down here, under his eye.
  • Extract from : « A Coin of Edward VII » by Fergus Hume
  • Did the folks at Rackville think they might live down near the bay?
  • Extract from : « The Rover Boys Under Canvas » by Arthur M. Winfield
  • Rum as the name of our old village where we used to live down in Essex.
  • Extract from : « Dead Man's Land » by George Manville Fenn

Synonyms for live down

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