look alive

as inscramble
as instir
as inget the lead out

Synonyms for look alive

verb race; get into position clumsily

Antonyms for look alive

Word Origin & History

c.1200, from Old English on life "in living." The fuller form on live was still current 17c. Alive and kicking "alert, vigorous," attested from 1859; "The allusion is to a child in the womb after quickening" [Farmer]. Used emphatically, especially with man; e.g.:

Thus abstracted as an expletive, man alive! (1845).

Example Sentences for look alive

"Look alive as soon as you can do it," Mary heard him say to them, and wondered.

Don't be talking now, but look alive, and I'll keep his sister off if need be.

The thing for you to do is to keep your eyes peeled and look alive.

All right, Tommy; let them look alive with the women and children; get up a light if you can.

Isaac, get me my hat—any hat or cap, anything you can find—only look alive.

If you are to do any good here, you know, we shall have to look alive.

(He springs up, crying) Look alive, Johnnies: there's danger.

Look alive with that axe, Tom; he can't breathe, and he's being roasted!

"Look alive, you two slackers," shouted Roy, from the far corner of the road.

Instead of coming up and being dead, let's come out and look alive.

look alive

Synonyms for look alive

Antonyms for look alive

scramble

scrambled

scrambling

stir

stirred

look alive

Synonyms for look alive

Antonyms for look alive

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