Life
Nouns
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life, vitality, viability
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animation
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vital spark, vital flame, soul, spirit. respiration, wind
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breath of life, breath of one's nostrils
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oxygen, air. [devices to sustain respiration] respirator, artificial respirator, heart and lung machine, iron lung
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medical devices etc. Remedy. lifeblood
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Archeus
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existence etc. Existence. vivification
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vital force
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vitalization
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revivification etc. Reproduction
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Prometheus
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life to come etc. (destiny) Destiny. [Science of life] physiology, biology
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animal ecology. nourishment, staff of life etc. (food) [Eating.] Food. genetics, heredity, inheritance, evolution, natural selection, reproduction (production) Production. microbe, aerobe, anaerobe, facultative anaerobe, obligate aerobe, obligate anaerobe, halophile [Micro.], methanogen [Micro.], archaebacteria [Micro.], microaerophile [Micro.]. animal etc. Animal
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vegetable etc. Vegetable. artificial life, robot, robotics, artificial intelligence. [vital signs] breathing, breathing rate, heartbeat, pulse, temperature. preservation of life, healing (medicine) Remedy.
Verbs
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be alive etc. adj.
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live, breathe, respire
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subsist etc. (exist) Existence
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walk the earth, strut and fret one's hour upon the stage" [Macbeth]
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be spared. see the light, be born, come into the world, fetch breath, draw breath, fetch the breath of life, draw the breath of life
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quicken
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revive
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come to life. give birth to etc. (produce) Production
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bring to life, put into life, vitalize
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vivify, vivificate
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reanimate etc. (restore) Restoration
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keep alive, keep body and soul together, keep the wolf from the door
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support life. hive nine lives like a cat.
Adjectives
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living, alive
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in life, in the flesh, in the land of the living
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on this side of the grave, above ground, breathing, quick, animated
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animative
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lively etc. (active) Activity
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all alive and kicking
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tenacious of life
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full of life, yeasty. vital, vitalic
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vivifying, vivified, c. v.
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viable, zoetic
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Promethean.