Know and Live

Know

Know verb - Have firsthand knowledge of states, situations, emotions, or sensations.
Usage example: have you ever known hunger?

Live is a synonym for know. In some cases you can use "Live" instead a verb "Know".

Nearby Words: knowing, known

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

Know is a synonym for live. Sometimes you can use "Know" instead a verb "Live".

Nearby Words: living, lived

Common collocations

girl know girl live girl
man know man live man
part know part live part
thanks know thanks live thanks
Other words: place, number, rest, time, way, characters, bit, little, father.

Both words in one sentence

  • Fan Fic / Atonement Cruel Mercy: Tether refused to kill Coil because she wanted him to live and know she had beaten him and fouled his plans.
  • Manga / Snow White and Seven Dwarfs Anti-Villain: All of the enemy tekigousha have sympathetic backstories, or at the very least, just want to live and know that being Kuroyuki's yes-man is the only way to do it.
  • In 1952 I starred in my first live sitcom... of course back then, we didn't wanna do it live, we just didn't know how to tape things!
    Source: Live Episode
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