| Main Entry: | live through |
| Part of Speech: | v |
| Definition: | to survive an experience, esp. a difficult one |
| Example: | It's hard to understand how she lived through those traumas. |
live through
Endure, survive. This idiom is used both seriously, as in Those who have lived through a depression never forget what it was like, or hyperbolically, as in That speech was endless
I thought I'd never live through it.