Verb: survive su(r)'vIv
- Continue to live and avoid dying
"These superstitions survive in the backwaters of America";
- last, live, live on, go, endure, hold up, hold out
- Continue in existence after an adversity
"He survived the cancer against all odds";
- pull through, pull round [Brit], come through, make it
- Support oneself, esp. at a minimal level
"he could barely survive on such a low wage";
- exist, live, subsist
- Live longer than
"She survived all her siblings";
- outlive, outlast
Derived forms: survived, survives, surviving
See also: come
Type of: be, continue, defeat, exist, get the better of, go along, go on, keep, live, overcome, proceed
Encyclopedia: Survive, Kaleidoscope