Live and Tough

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Live adjective - Being in effective operation.

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Tough and live are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Tough" instead an adjective "Live".

Nearby Words: living, lived

Tough adjective - Not easily chewed.

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Live and tough are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Live" instead an adjective "Tough".

Nearby Words: toughness, toughen, toughening, tougher, toughed

Now let's say "this guy" is a tough-as-nails career army sergeant who just wants to live in peace with his family.

Source: Bullying A Dragon / Live-Action Films
They just heard it was a tough place to live and pretended to be tough guys to survive.

Source: Poke the Poodle
In other words, if you live and work in the city (especially a big one), you'll find Pokémon everywhere, but if you live and work in the country, tough luck.

Source: Video Game / Pokémon Go

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