Survive - definition, pronunciation, transcription
verb
- live longer than (syn: outlast, outlive)
Extra examples
I don't see how any creature can survive under those conditions.
Only a few written records survive from those times.
These ancient practices still survive in some regions.
Some of the original bridges survive.
Many businesses are struggling to survive in today's economy.
Only his son survived him.
She survived her husband by only a few years.
He survived a political scandal and was elected to the state legislature.
The company survived the recession.
She survived five surgeries.
Her body died, her fame survives.
He is survived by his wife and two children.
These superstitions survive in the backwaters of America
He survived the cancer against all odds
We armed ourselves with the tools we would need to survive in the forest.
Word forms
I/you/we/they: survive
he/she/it: survives
present participle: surviving
past tense: survived
past participle: survived
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