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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

live off en · VERB

Pronunciation

Meanings

  1. (idiomatic, transitive) To depend on financially.
  2. (idiomatic, transitive) To survive by consuming only a certain thing or things.
    • When I was a student, I lived off baked potatoes.
    • I live off nothing in this world / Except the thick grey air that chains itself / Swirls all around and engrains itself 1985, “World Without Warning”, in Pressure Points, performed by Anne Clark:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
lived off Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
lived off Tense=Past lexicographic
lives off Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
living off Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic

Synonyms

live on