'Survive' definitions:
Definition of 'survive'
(from WordNet)
verb
Continue to live through hardship or adversity; "We went without water and food for 3 days"; "These superstitions survive in the backwaters of America"; "The race car driver lived through several very serious accidents"; "how long can a person last without food and water?" [syn: survive, last, live, live on, go, endure, hold up, hold out]
verb
Continue in existence after (an adversity, etc.); "He survived the cancer against all odds" [syn: survive, pull through, pull round, come through, make it] [ant: succumb, yield]
verb
Support oneself; "he could barely exist on such a low wage"; "Can you live on $2000 a month in New York City?"; "Many people in the world have to subsist on $1 a day" [syn: exist, survive, live, subsist]
verb
Definition of 'Survive'
From: GCIDE
- Survive \Sur*vive"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Survived; p. pr. & vb. n. Surviving.] [F. survivre, L. supervivere; super over + vivere to live. See Super-, and Victuals.] To live beyond the life or existence of; to live longer than; to outlive; to outlast; as, to survive a person or an event. --Cowper. [1913 Webster]
- I'll assure her of Her widowhood, be it that she survive me, In all my lands and leases whatsoever. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Survive'
From: GCIDE
- Survive \Sur*vive"\, v. i. To remain alive; to continue to live. [1913 Webster]
- Thy pleasure, Which, when no other enemy survives, Still conquers all the conquerors. --Sir J. Denham. [1913 Webster]
- Alike are life and death, When life in death survives. --Longfellow. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'survive'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abide,
- be left,
- be spared,
- bide,
- bounce back,
- carry on,
- carry through,
- cheat death,
- come around,
- come back,
- come round,
- come through,
- come to,
- come up smiling,
- continue,
- continue to be,
- cope,
- defeat time,
- defy time,
- dwell,
- eke out,
- endure,
- exist,
- extend,
- get about,
- get along,
- get by,
- get on,
- get over,
- get well,
- go on,
- go on with,
- hang in,
- hang on,
- hang tough,
- hold,
- hold on,
- hold out,
- keep,
- keep afloat,
- keep alive,
- keep at it,
- keep on,
- last,
- last long,
- last out,
- live,
- live down,
- live on,
- live through,
- maintain,
- make a comeback,
- make ends meet,
- make it,
- make out,
- manage,
- never say die,
- outlast,
- outlive,
- outwear,
- perdure,
- perennate,
- persevere,
- persist,
- prevail,
- pull round,
- pull through,
- rally,
- recover,
- remain,
- rest,
- revive,
- ride out,
- run,
- run on,
- scrape along,
- see it through,
- stand,
- stay,
- stay on,
- stick it out,
- stick to it,
- subsist,
- support life,
- sustain,
- tarry,
- tide over,
- wear,
- wear well,
- weather the storm