Experience
Experience verb - Have firsthand knowledge of states, situations, emotions, or sensations.
Live
Live verb - Have firsthand knowledge of states, situations, emotions, or sensations.
Usage example: I have lived a kind of hell when I was a drug addict
Experience is a synonym for live in activity topic. You can use "Experience" instead a verb "Live", if it concerns topics such as lead, enjoy being alive.
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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By "I wish to live" he probably meant "I wish not to die of mad cow disease", but instead what he got was a chance to really experience life- to truly live- before dying of mad cow disease.
Source: Literature / Going Bovine -
This meant that most French soldiers' first experience of live-firing was on the battlefield, whilst the British practiced with live ammo every day.
- Count 1: The Patient of the Week is a teenage girl with a sick brother who seems driven to live the life he'd be living if he weren't sick, so that he can experience it vicariously through her.
Source: My Sibling Will Live Through Me
Cite this Source
Live and Experience. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 16, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/experience/live
Experience & Live. N.p., 2016. Web. 16 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/experience/live>.
Live or Experience. 2016. Accessed August 16, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/experience/live.
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