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- pronunciation:
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vaIv
- parts of speech:
- intransitive verb, transitive verb
- features:
- Word Combinations (verb), Word Parts
| part of speech: |
intransitive verb |
| inflections: |
survives, surviving, survived |
| definition 1: |
to continue to live despite serious immediate threat to one's life.
They were trapped in a cave for days, and it's a miracle that they survived.Only a few of the passengers survived when the plane went down.- similar words:
- exist
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| definition 2: |
to sustain life or remain in existence or use.
These adaptations allow the plant to survive in the desert.Only a few of the artist's later paintings survive.This method of dyeing fabric still survives.- synonyms:
- endure, last, live, subsist
- antonyms:
- die, disappear, perish
- similar words:
- abide, continue, exist, hold out, persist, remain
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| definition 3: |
to continue to live following the death of another.
The deceased's wife and two children are surviving.- similar words:
- remain
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| related words: |
cope, exist, live, manage, muddle through, obtain, scrape, scratch, wear, withstand |
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| part of speech: |
transitive verb |
| definition 1: |
to live or continue beyond or in spite of.
She survived serious illness last winter.Two of the teenagers survived the car crash.Parts of the building survived the fire.- synonyms:
- outlive, weather
- similar words:
- endure, live, outlast, outwear, pull through, ride out, withstand
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| definition 2: |
to outlive (someone).
She survived her husband by ten years.- synonyms:
- outlive
- similar words:
- outlast
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| related words: |
brave, defy, overcome, stand, sustain, undergo |
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| derivations: |
survivable (adj.), surviving (adj.), survivability (n.) |
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