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Definition of Live with
1. Verb. Tolerate or accommodate oneself to. "She has learned to live with her husband's little idiosyncrasies"
Generic synonyms: Abide, Bear, Brook, Digest, Endure, Put Up, Stand, Stick Out, Stomach, Suffer, Support, Tolerate
Derivative terms: Acceptance
Definition of Live with
1. Verb. (idiomatic) To regard as adequate or manageable although not entirely satisfactory; to accept; to tolerate. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Live With
Literary usage of Live with
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1910)
"Her promise to live with the plaintiff as his wife was falsely and fraudulently
made for the purpose of procuring the deed made to her. ..."
2. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1887)
"For some time after reaching manhood Clarke continued to live with his father
and mother, •who retired about 1810 from the school at Enfield, ..."
3. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1912)
"... 81 nor is her right to relief affected by the fuct that she made an offer to
live with him conditional upon his giving up liis habits of intemperance ..."
4. Institutes of the Christian Religion by Jean Calvin (1844)
"we shall also live with him; if we suffer, we shall also reign with him." (<) "
Being made conformable unto his death; if by any means I might attain unto ..."
5. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1885)
"... but claims no title in himself; that his minor children now live with him on
the league aforesaid, and that upon such testimony the defendant moves the ..."
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