Survive

Quick meaning: Survive is a verb meaning (intransitive) Of a person, to continue to live; to remain alive.

Meaning

(intransitive) Of a person, to continue to live; to remain alive.

More Meanings

1. (intransitive) Of an object or concept, to continue to exist.
2. (transitive) To live past (a life-threatening event)
3. (transitive) To live longer than (someone); to outlive (someone or something); to outlast (something).
4. (intransitive, sports) Of a team, to avoid relegation or demotion to a lower division or league.
5. (intransitive) To be a victim of nonfatal but substantial harm and nonetheless to display the strength to heal; especially, after a crime or an illness, especially sexual or physical abuse or assault, cancer, or a natural disaster.

Example Sentences

He did not survive the accident.

This house has survived two hurricanes.

This town has been hit by two hurricanes, but it survives.

his children survived him; he was survived by his children

Word Forms

• survives
• surviving
• survived
• survivest
• survivedst
• surviveth

Synonyms for survive

Depending on context, synonyms include overlive, endure, subsist, live, last, exist.

Antonyms for survive

Common opposites include predecease, yield, succumb.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include endure, outlast, outlive, subsist, hold up, live.

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