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Definition of Survive
1. Verb. Continue to live through hardship or adversity. "The business is going to survive "; "How long can a person last without food and water?"
Exact synonyms: Endure, Go, Hold Out, Hold Up, Last, Live, Live On
Entails: Be, Live
Related verbs: Be, Live, Exist, Live, Subsist
Specialized synonyms: Hold Up, Hold Water, Stand Up, Perennate, Live Out
Derivative terms: Endurance, Survival
Entails: Be, Live
Related verbs: Be, Live, Exist, Live, Subsist
Specialized synonyms: Hold Up, Hold Water, Stand Up, Perennate, Live Out
Derivative terms: Endurance, Survival
2. Verb. Continue in existence after (an adversity, etc.). "The business is going to survive "; "He survived the cancer against all odds"
Exact synonyms: Come Through, Make It, Pull Round, Pull Through
Entails: Convalesce, Recover, Recuperate
Generic synonyms: Defeat, Get The Better Of, Overcome
Antonyms: Succumb
Derivative terms: Survival, Survivor
Entails: Convalesce, Recover, Recuperate
Generic synonyms: Defeat, Get The Better Of, Overcome
Antonyms: Succumb
Derivative terms: Survival, Survivor
3. Verb. Support oneself. "Many people in the world have to subsist on $1 a day"
Exact synonyms: Exist, Live, Subsist
Specialized synonyms: Breathe, Drift, Freewheel
Related verbs: Endure, Go, Hold Out, Hold Up, Last, Live, Live On
Derivative terms: Subsistence, Subsister, Survival
Specialized synonyms: Breathe, Drift, Freewheel
Related verbs: Endure, Go, Hold Out, Hold Up, Last, Live, Live On
Derivative terms: Subsistence, Subsister, Survival
4. Verb. Live longer than. "She outlived her husband by many years"
Definition of Survive
1. v. t. To live beyond the life or existence of; to live longer than; to outlive; to outlast; as, to survive a person or an event.
2. v. i. To remain alive; to continue to live.
Definition of Survive
1. to remain in existence [v -VIVED, -VIVING, -VIVES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Survive
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