live on

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live on verb

To survive solely by consuming a certain thing.“When he was in the rainforest, he lived on bugs and rainwater.”
To endure.“Her memory lives on in our hearts.”

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live off survive endure live hold out hold up last go live by live and die by subsist get by live off the land feed off live for eat, breathe, and sleep

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