- alive now
- all living things
- living organisms
- the finest living pianist
- The elephant is the biggest living land animal.
- [only before noun] (of a place) used for living rather than working in
- The workers' living quarters were cramped and uncomfortable.
- a separate living space/area
- [only before noun] used or practised now
- living languages (= those still spoken)
- a living faith
Idioms
See living in the Oxford Advanced American DictionarySee living in the Oxford Learner's Dictionary of Academic Englishbeat/knock the (living) daylights out of somebody
- (informal) to hit somebody very hard several times and hurt them very much
- Get out or I’ll beat the living daylights out of you!
be living proof of something/that…
- to show by your actions or qualities that a particular fact is true
- These figures are living proof of the government's incompetence.
- He is living proof that age is no barrier to new challenges.
frighten/scare the (living) daylights out of somebody
- (informal) to frighten somebody very much
within/in living memory
- at a time, or during the time, that is remembered by people still alive
- the coldest winter in living memory
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