Survive

[surĀ·vive]

To survive something is to live through it or endure it. You can survive a car accident, or you can survive your little brother's four hour violin recital.

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To live beyond the life or existence of; to live longer than; to outlive; to outlast; as, to survive a person or an event.

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"

Verb
continue to live; endure or last; "We went without water and food for 3 days"; "These superstitions survive in the backwaters of America"; "The racecar driver lived through several very serious accidents"

Verb
live longer than; "She outlived her husband by many years"

Verb
continue in existence after (an adversity, etc.); "He survived the cancer against all odds"


v. t.
To live beyond the life or existence of; to live longer than; to outlive; to outlast; as, to survive a person or an event.

v. i.
To remain alive; to continue to live.


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.
I'll assure her of Her widowhood, be it that she survive me, In all my lands and leases whatsoever.

Survive

Sur*vive", v. i. To remain alive; to continue to live.
Thy pleasure, Which, when no other enemy survives, Still conquers all the conquerors.
Alike are life and death, When life in death survives.

To live beyond the life or existence of; to live longer than; to outlive; to outlast; as, to survive a person or an event.

To remain alive; to continue to live.

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Usage Examples

Communication is a continual balancing act, juggling the conflicting needs for intimacy and independence. To survive in the world, we have to act in concert with others, but to survive as ourselves, rather than simply as cogs in a wheel, we have to act alone.

But when you're deprived of it for a lengthy period then you value human companionship. But you have to survive and so you devise all kinds of mental exercises and it's amazing.

Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.

According to the Small Business Administration, more than 70 percent of all family businesses do not survive through the second generation, and 8 percent do not make it to a third.

All societies on the verge of death are masculine. A society can survive with only one man no society will survive a shortage of women.

Good dreams don't come cheap, you've got to pay for them and If you just dream when you're asleep this is no way for them to come alive... to survive.

Humanity needs dreams to be able to survive the miseries of daily existence, even if only for an instant.

Both class and race survive education, and neither should. What is education then? If it doesn't help a human being to recognize that humanity is humanity, what is it for? So you can make a bigger salary than other people?

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Other Usage Examples

Authority has every reason to fear the skeptic, for authority can rarely survive in the face of doubt.

For a Catholic kid in parochial school, the only way to survive the beatings - by classmates, not the nuns - was to be the funny guy.

All I'm trying to do is survive and make good out of the dirty, nasty, unbelievable lifestyle that they gave me.

A poet can survive everything but a misprint.

Air travel survived decades of terrorism, including attacks which resulted in the deaths of everyone on the plane. It survived 9/11. It'll survive the next successful attack. The only real worry is that we'll scare ourselves into making air travel so onerous that we won't fly anymore.

Comedy is a way to make sense of chaos. It's a way of dealing with things that are overwhelming, that threaten you it's a way to survive and get closer to the truth.

Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.

Four years of world war, at a cost in human suffering which our minds are mercifully too limited to imagine, led to the very clear realization that international anarchy must be abandoned if civilization was to survive.

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