📖 Определения и значения для слова alive
📒 living; not dead
- Is your mother still alive?
- Doctors kept the baby alive for six weeks.
- She had to steal food just to stay alive.
📒 full of emotion, excitement, activity, etc.
- Ed was alive with happiness.
- Her eyes were alive with interest.
- His eyes were suddenly alive with excitement.
📒 continuing to exist
- to keep a tradition alive
- Money from charities is keeping the theatre alive.
- The issue remains alive in the public consciousness.
📒 full of living or moving things
- The pool was alive with goldfish.
📒 aware of something; knowing something exists and is important
- to be alive to the dangers/facts/possibilities
- The government should be alive to the problems faced by industry.
- We're all alive to the dangers of an over-centralized state.
📒 very active, healthy or popular
- My mother is still alive and kicking.
📒 still living and not injured or harmed
- The missing student was found alive and well in Newcastle.
📒 still popular or successful
- Singapore's literary scene is alive and well.
- Contrary to popular belief, the tourism industry is alive and well in this part of the world.
📒 to make something interesting
- The pictures bring the book alive.
- The teacher brought history alive with fascinating stories.
📒 to become interesting and exciting
- The game came alive in the second half.
- New political issues suddenly came alive after the election.
📒 to become busy and full of activity
- The city starts to come alive after dark.
- The fishing villages come alive in spring.
📒 to show interest in something and become excited about it
- She came alive as she talked about her job.
📒 to criticize or punish somebody severely because you are extremely angry with them
- He’ll eat you alive if he ever finds out.
📒 to defeat somebody completely in an argument, a competition, etc.
- The defence lawyers are going to eat you alive tomorrow.
📒 to bite somebody many times
- I was being eaten alive by mosquitoes.