n.
1) to lead a ~ (to lead a busy ~)
2) to prolong; save a ~
3) to devote one's ~ (to smt.)
4) to spend one's ~ (doing smt.)
5) to give, lay down, sacrifice; risk one's ~
6) to claim, snuff out, take a ~ (she took her own ~; the accident claimed many lives)
7) to ruin smb.'s ~
8) to bring; restore smb. to ~
9) to come to ~; to take on ~ (the statue took on ~ in the sculptor's skilled hands)
10) an active; ascetic, austere; busy, hectic; charmed; cloistered; difficult, hard, miserable, tough; dissipated, dissolute; dull; easy; exciting; full; happy; idyllic; lonely, solitary; long; monastic; peaceful, quiet, serene; short; simple; stormy, turbulent ~
11) campus ( esp. AE ); city; civilian; country, rural; married; modern; nomadic; political; public ~ (in civilian ~ the sergeant was a teacher; married ~ seems to agree with them; the hunters led a nomadic ~)
12) smb.'s family, home; love, personal; private; sex; social ~ (to lead a hectic social ~; in private ~ she was very easygoing)
13) animal; bird; human; marine; plant ~
14) smb.'s adult ~
15) the shelf ~ (of smt. being sold in a store)
16) in ~ (early in ~)
17) ( misc. ) in the prime of ~; the facts of ~; the accused got ~ ('the accused was sentenced to ~ imprisonment'); to show signs of ~; (to hang on) for dear ~ ('with all one's energy'); not on your ~ ('not for anything in the world'); to start a new ~; to make a new ~ for oneself; to breathe (new) ~ into smt.; to bring back to ~; to stake one's ~ on smt.; a way of ~