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  • Definition
    • living :the experience of being alive; the course of human events and activities
      • he could no longer cope with the complexities of life

    • living :pertaining to living persons
      • within living memory

    • living :people who are still living
      • save your pity for the living

    • living :true to life; lifelike
      • the living image of her mother

    • living :the condition of living or the state of being alive
      • while there's life there's hope|life depends on many chemical and physical processes

    • living :(informal) absolute
      • she is a living doll|scared the living daylights out of them|beat the living hell out of him

    • living :the financial means whereby one lives
      • each child was expected to pay for their keep|he applied to the state for support|he could no longer earn his own livelihood

    • living :still in existence
      • the Wollemi pine found in Australia is a surviving specimen of a conifer thought to have been long extinct and therefore known as a living fossil|the only surviving frontier blockhouse in Pennsylvania

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