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Alive

adjective

Possessing life. Synonym: live. "The nerve is alive" , "Doctors are working hard to keep him alive" , "Burned alive" , "A live canary"

(often followed by 'with') full of life and spirit. "A face alive with mischief"

Having life or vigor or spirit. Synonym: animated. "Animated conversation" , "Became very animated when he heard the good news"

(followed by 'to' or 'of') aware of.

In operation. Synonym: active. "The tradition was still alive" , "An active tradition"

Mentally perceptive and responsive. Synonyms: alert, awake. "Alert to the problems" , "Alive to what is going on" , "Awake to the dangers of her situation" , "Was now awake to the reality of his predicament"

Capable of erupting. Synonym: live. "The volcano is very much alive"

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... after twenty years of horrible poverty and ill-luck, had caught the largest halibut ever taken off the Banks and made thousands of dollars exhibiting it alive. And it was this same Jim who, for the remaining ten years of his life, turned to gold everything ...

— The Harbor of Doubt • Frank Williams

... confound it. This is between us as man to man; and don't you try to bring in no law on this, because you know law books. This is our own business and nobody else's. I'd knock my best friend out of the door if he come poking into my private matters. Why, man alive! this is sacred. That's it—an affair of the heart. Now be careful." His voice was high and angry and his ...

— The Price of the Prairie - A Story of Kansas • Margaret Hill McCarter

... anti-slavery movement. The only discussion of the grave social questions of the age, the questions of right and wrong that lie at the basis of society—the only voices that have stirred them and kept those questions alive have been those of these three reforms. Smothered with gold—smothered with material prosperity, the vast masses of our countrymen were living the lives of mere getters of money; but the ideas of this half of the ...

— History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I • Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Matilda Joslyn Gage

... our own provision we are comfortless, and without comfort our souls perish, then our bodies. Salisbury Plain, swooning in the heat, is a paradise for insects. In those desolate dwellings both flies and (I am sure) fleas abounded, dreadfully healthy and alive. I only guess at the fleas, but the flies I can answer for. They swarmed on the baking walls and wove webs in the air above us. The rooms were black with them, and their humming ...

— In a Green Shade - A Country Commentary • Maurice Hewlett

... readjusted and rearranged everything. She felt like a little girl who plays at keeping house. Some new sense seemed waked within her, a sense which made her alive to the coziness and comfort and seclusion of this cut-off corner. She found herself trying to see it ...

— Contrary Mary • Temple Bailey

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