to have a reason to want to stay alive
to think someone or something is so important that they are your main reason for living
to want something to happen very much
Gregory was 21 and had everything to live for.
He lived for the day when he would be old enough to leave home.
He spoke in the voice of a man with nothing left to live for.
She lives for her work.
lives for
living for
lived for
There is no origin for this phrasal verb
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