Live Up To

Synonyms: Live Up To

Crosswords: Live Up To

Try not to live up to all my expectations. (The Sting; writing credit: David S. Ward)

I live up to the very edge of my charm. (Afterglow; writing credit: Alan Rudolph)

If we catch John Doe and he turns out to be the devil, I mean if he's Satan himself, that might live up to our expectations, but he's not the devil. (Se7en; writing credit: Andrew Kevin Walker)

Why don't you wipe it off someday and have a good look--and figure out how you can live up to it. (Destry Rides Again; writing credit: Felix Jackson)

A name like that you gotta live up to. What's your last name? (Johnny Dangerously; writing credit: Harry Colomby; Jeff Harris)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

When living on a person, an adult female mite can live up to a month. (references)

Adult lice can live up to 30 days on a person's head. To live, adult lice need to feed on blood. (references)

Business

With concrete steps towards convertibility, companies in Uzbekistan and the U.S. likewise hope that Uzbekistan will finally live up to the full potential of this vast and diverse market. (references)

Economic History

Kazakhstan

Some foreign firms have expressed concern that government organizations fail to live up to their side of the contract (particularly regarding payment). (references)

Moldova

In the confusing situation after the new parliamentary elections in February, the new Communist-appointed government failed to live up to the international donors' requirements. (references)

Armenia

The Armenian Development Agency (ADA), a state-run investment promotion organization, was recently restructured to become a one-stop-shop for investors located directly in the Prime Minister's office, although the agency has yet to live up to its billing. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Chinese 

辜負 (disappoint, fail to live up to, let down), 不爭氣 (be disappointing, fail to live up to expectations). (various references)

German

entsprechen (answer, be convenient, be correct, be in accordance with, befit, come up to, comply, comply with, conform, correlate, correspond, correspond to, equal, fit, fulfill, match, meet, to comply, to conform, to correlate, to correspond). (various references)

Greek 

ανταποκρίνομαι σε κάτι. (various references)

Hungarian

beváltja a reményeket (to answer one's expectations, to come through, to live up to expectations). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

名実共に備わる (to live up to one's name), 位倒れ (inability to live up to one's rank, out of one's league). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

くらいだおれ (inability to live up to one's rank, out of one's league), めいじつともにそなわる (to live up to one's name). (various references)

Pig Latin

ivelay upay otay

Portuguese

transmissão ao vivo, persistir (abide, abide by, hold out, insist, persevere, persist), manter promessa. (various references)

Romanian

trãi conform, fi vrednic de, fi la înãlţimea, îndreptãţi (entitle, warrant). (various references)

Spanish

vivir con arreglo a. (various references)

Swedish

leva upp till, leva i enlighet med, uppfylla (answer, carry out, comply with, discharge, fill, fill in, fill up, fulfil, fulfill, imbue, meet, perform, satisfy), motsvara (answer, answer to, correspond to, equal, fulfil, match), kunna mäta sig med. (various references)

Turkish

ulaşmak (achieve, aggregate, approach, arrive, attain, come, come at, come to, come up to, come up with, effect, figure out at, gain, get at, hit, reach, win). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: outlive.

-2 letters: outlie, outvie, piolet, plutei, polite, tupelo, violet, volute.

-3 letters: letup, louie, loupe, olive, ovule, pilot, pivot, poilu, poult, teloi, toile, tulip, uplit, utile, voile, volte, volti.

-4 letters: etui, evil, lept, levo, lieu, lipe, lite, litu, live, lope, loti, loup, lout, love, lute, pelt, pile, plie, plot, poet, pole, pout, pule, puli, tile.

+1 letter: pollutive.

+2 letters: copulative.

+3 letters: copulatives, sporulative.

+4 letters: corruptively, productively, protrusively, voluptuaries.

+5 letters: consumptively, prerevolution, proventriculi, pulverization.

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