Usually means: Desperately clinging to survive, persist.
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We found 18 dictionaries that define the word for dear life:

General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. for dear life: Merriam-Webster
  2. for dear life: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. for dear life: Collins English Dictionary
  4. for dear life: Vocabulary.com
  5. for dear life: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. for dear life: Wiktionary
  7. for dear life: Dictionary.com
  8. for dear life: Rhymezone
  9. for dear life: FreeDictionary.org
  10. for dear life: Mnemonic Dictionary
  11. for dear life: TheFreeDictionary.com
  12. for dear life: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. for dear life: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. for dear life: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. for dear life: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. for dear life: Idioms

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adverb:  (idiomatic) Desperately.

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