Living and Serving

Living

Living adjective - Being in effective operation.

Usage example: a living culture that has survived a number of foreign invasions

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Serving and living are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Serving" instead an adjective "Living".

Nearby Words: live, lived, livable

Serving noun - The act of delivering a writ or summons upon someone.

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Living and serving are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Living" instead an adjective "Serving".

Nearby Words: serve, service, servicing, servant, served

good	good living	good serving
nice	nice living	nice serving
normal	normal living	normal serving
average	average living	average serving
Other adjectives: single, healthy, actual, big, evil, main, daily, white, unhealthy, former, minor, last, giant, oldest, strongest.

Then you're probably a short-order cook serving up concoctions best avoided by the living.

Source: Hat Shop
As serving as a un-living plot device in part 2, Morbid finally gets decent lines at the beginning of part 3...then spends the rest of the movie as a background character.

Source: Machinima / Tales of the Past
Once she enters the convent, Therese's entire existence is consumed with spending every moment serving others and living in humility.

Source: Incorruptible Pure Pureness

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