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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 |
adverb + (v.)survive
barely, miraculously, narrowly, somehow
(v.)survive
+ adverb
economically, financially, indefinitely
(v.)survive
+ noun
adulthood,
assassination,
attack,
attempt,
blast,
bombing,
bout,
captivity,
catastrophe,
collision,
crash,
downturn,
drought,
earthquake,
encounter,
extinction,
famine,
flourish,
habitat,
hardship,
infancy,
layoff,
massacre,
millennium,
onslaught,
ordeal,
rigor,
scare,
scrutiny,
siege,
tornado,
transplant,
trauma,
tsunami,
winter,
wit,
womb,
wreck
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| derivations: |
survivable (adj.), surviving (adj.), survivability (n.) |
The word survive
contains the following parts:
super-, supra-, sur-2
Latin
prefix
that means above, over
  Example words:
insuperable, superable, superannuated, superfluous, superimpose, supernatural, superscript, supersede, superstructure, supervise, supervisor, supranational, supraorbital, surmount, surplus, surprise, surreal, survey, survival, survive, survivor
- synonyms:
- hyper-
- antonyms:
- sub-, hyp-, hypo-
viv, vivi, vit
Latin
root
that means life, living, live
Example words:
aquavit, arborvitae, avitaminosis, convivial, devitalize, inter vivos, joie de vivre, modus vivendi, qui vive, redivivus, revitalize, revive, survival, survive, survivor, viable, vital, vital signs, vital statistics, vitalism, vitality, vitamin, viva, viva voce, vivace, vivacious, vivarium, vive, vivid, vivify, vivisection
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