English dictionary

survive

/s/@/r'v/aI/v/

Definitions, examples, synonyms and antonyms from WordNet 3.0.

verb

continue to live through hardship or adversity

verb.stative

Examples
These superstitions survive in the backwaters of America.

Synonyms endure go hold out hold up last live live on

Source: WordNet 3.0
continue in existence after (an adversity, etc.)

verb.stative

Examples
He survived the cancer against all odds.

Synonyms come through make it pull round pull through

Antonyms succumb yield

Source: WordNet 3.0
support oneself

verb.stative

Synonyms exist live subsist

Source: WordNet 3.0
live longer than

verb.stative

Synonyms outlast outlive

Source: WordNet 3.0
To live beyond the life or existence of; to live longer than; to outlive; to outlast; as, to <i>survive</i> a person or an event.

verb

Source: webster1913
To remain alive; to continue to live.

verb

Source: webster1913