Live through meaning
Live through is a phrasal verb that means to experience and endure a difficult event or period.
- Past simple
- lived through
- Past participle
- lived through
- -ing form
- living through
What live through means
C2
To experience and endure a difficult event or period
Her grandparents lived through the war.
Similar phrasal verbs
With live: live off, live on, live for, live in, live out, live together, live up to, live with.
With through: go through, get through, put someone through something, see through, patch through, take someone through something, think through, thumb through, work through, come through.
Common questions
What does live through mean?
To experience and endure a difficult event or period.
What is the past tense of live through?
Lived through, which is also its past participle.
Meanings and examples are written by Retite. The meanings follow Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0). Levels are based on the CEFR-J Wordlist and set by Retite.
