1. Still in existence
   "the Wollemi pine found in Australia is a surviving specimen of a conifer thought to have been long extinct and therefore known as a living fossil"; "the only surviving frontier blockhouse in Pennsylvania";
   - living

1. Continue to live and avoid dying
   "These superstitions survive in the backwaters of America";
   - last, live, live on, go, endure, hold up, hold out
    
2. Continue in existence after an adversity
   "He survived the cancer against all odds";
   - pull through, pull round [Brit], come through, make it
    
3. Support oneself, esp. at a minimal level
   "he could barely survive on such a low wage";
   - exist, live, subsist
    
4. Live longer than
   "She survived all her siblings";
   - outlive, outlast

See also: come, extant

Type of: be, continue, defeat, exist, get the better of, go along, go on, keep, live, overcome, proceed

Encyclopedia: Surviving