survive
verbUK /səˈvaɪv/ · US /sɚˈvaɪv/
Etymology From Anglo-Norman survivre, Old French survivre, from Late Latin supervīvere (“to outlive”), from Latin super (“over”) + vivere (“to live”), akin to vita (“life”). See vivid. Compare devive, revive.
Of a person, to continue to live; to remain alive.
- Whether by a miracle or by good luck, all twenty passengers survived.
Of an object or concept, to continue to exist.
- This town has been hit by two hurricanes, but it survives.
To live past (a life-threatening event)
- Whether by a miracle or by good luck, all twenty passengers survived the crash.
- He did not survive the accident.
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- This house has survived two hurricanes.
To live longer than (someone); to outlive (someone or something); to outlast (something).
- his children survived him; he was survived by his children
- And for that dowrie, Ile aſſure her of / Her widdow-hood, be it that ſhe ſuruiue me / In all my Lands and Leaſes whatſoeuer / Let ſpecialties be therefore drawne betweene vs, / That couenants may be kept on either hand.c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:
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- I am afraid, as will happen in other cases, the treaty of alliance has survived the amicable dispositions in which it had its origin.1817 December 31 (indicated as 1818), [Walter Scott], chapter X, in Rob Roy. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co. […]; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC, page 227:
- Jones is survived by his second wife, Anna (nee Söderström), whom he married in 2012, and their daughter, Siri; and by Bill and Sally, the children of his first marriage, to Alison Telfer, which ended in divorce.2020 January 22, Stuart Jeffries, “Terry Jones obituary”, in The Guardian:
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.
- I just know you'll get through this, because that's what survivors like you do: they not only survive but thrive.
Hobbies, Lifestyle, Sports Of a team, to avoid relegation or demotion to a lower division or league.
- They narrowly survived, but the heat is on.
- Derived terms
- cryosurvive, nonsurviving, outsurvive, survivability, survivable, surviver, survivin, survivor, unsurvivability, unsurvived, unsurviving