LIVE WITH

IPA (US):

 Dictionary entry overview: What does live with mean? 

• LIVE WITH (verb)
  The verb LIVE WITH has 1 sense:

1. tolerate or accommodate oneself to

  Familiarity information: LIVE WITH used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LIVE WITH (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Tolerate or accommodate oneself to

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Synonyms:

accept; live with; swallow

Context example:

She has learned to live with her husband's little idiosyncrasies

Hypernyms (to "live with" is one way to...):

abide; bear; brook; digest; endure; put up; stand; stick out; stomach; suffer; support; tolerate (put up with something or somebody unpleasant)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

 Context examples 

Miss Bingley is to live with her brother, and keep his house; and I am much mistaken if we shall not find a very charming neighbour in her.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

“There is such a change at home,” said she, “that you would scarcely know the dear old house. They live with us now.”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

What! do you think you can live with me, and see me daily, and yet, if you still love me, be always cold and distant?

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

They still live with their old servants, who probably know so much of Rucastle’s past life that he finds it difficult to part from them.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

This sickened her of America, and she came back to live with a maiden aunt at Pinner, in Middlesex.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He is to live with the young couple, and make a handsome allowance on condition that the bride sticks to her old duties.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

People can live with the disease for many years.

(HIV/AIDS, NIH)

"I want to go to Kansas, and live with Aunt Em and Uncle Henry."

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

Lady Bertram soon brought the matter to a certainty by carelessly observing to Mrs. Norris—I think, sister, we need not keep Miss Lee any longer, when Fanny goes to live with you.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

This person may be your steady date, established romantic partner you live with, or your spouse.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)