Surviving

[surĀ·vive]

Someone who is still living, even after the death of another or the end of a situation or event, is said to be surviving. For example, if a person dies, the husband or wife is "the surviving spouse."

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Remaining alive; yet living or existing; as, surviving friends; surviving customs.

Adjective S.
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"


p. pr. & vb. n.
of Survive

a.
Remaining alive; yet living or existing; as, surviving friends; surviving customs.


Surviving

Sur*viv"ing, a. Remaining alive; yet living or existing; as, surviving friends; surviving customs.

Remaining alive; yet living or existing; as, surviving friends; surviving customs.

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Usage Examples

When life was worrying about a car payment or a rent payment and a bill, you're so consumed with that, you really don't have time to know yourself. That's surviving and getting by.

You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

Some of the greatest survivors have been women. Look at the courage so many women have shown after surviving earthquakes in the rubble for days on end.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

To a billion people around the world surviving on just a dollar a day, the question of what to eat tonight is more about life and death than about recipes. The struggle of poor people around the globe weighs heavily on me, especially now that I am a mother, which is why I work with Oxfam.

Unless you're living on the street and surviving on a diet of discarded turkey drumsticks, there's no point in being gloomy. We've spent too long trying to cheer ourselves up by spending money on brightly coloured things we don't really need. We've stopped using our imaginations.

The hypothesis of surviving intelligence and personality - not only surviving but anxious and able with difficulty to communicate - is the simplest and most straightforward and the only one that fits all the facts.

Gay culture is surviving and thriving. Some activists believe the recent rise in homophobic violence might be a gauge of the success of positive gay images.

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