lived

1. 1
   verb

   Simple past and past participle of live.

   My grandparents lived through years of hardship before settling here.

   He has lived abroad for most of his career.

   Note

   A regular past form: live adds -d, and one spelling does both jobs. It is the simple past in they lived in Lisbon and the participle after have in they have lived there for years. Because most senses of live are intransitive, the participle seldom turns up in the passive. It travels with prepositions instead, as in lived through or lived on. The same spelling also builds the "-lived" compounds such as short-lived.

2. 2
   adjectivein compounds

   Having a life or existence of a specified duration.

   The ceasefire proved short-lived, collapsing within a single week.

   Long-lived stars burn through their fuel slowly over billions of years.

   Note

   An adjective that almost never stands alone: it is the second half of compounds that measure a lifespan, such as short-lived and long-lived. The compound is hyphenated before a noun, as in a short-lived recycling scheme. It is not comparable on its own, so any sense of degree comes from the first element (short, long) rather than from lived itself.

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