Definition of survive

verb (v)

• continue to live through hardship or adversity (verb.stative)

  Synonym: endure, go, hold out, hold up, last, live, live on
  

  Example:
  These superstitions survive in the backwaters of America.
  

  source: wordnet30
• continue in existence after (an adversity, etc.) (verb.stative)

  Synonym: come through, make it, pull round, pull through
  Antonym: succumb, yield
  

  Example:
  He survived the cancer against all odds.
  

  source: wordnet30
• support oneself (verb.stative)

  Synonym: exist, live, subsist
  

  source: wordnet30
• live longer than (verb.stative)

  Synonym: outlast, outlive
  

  source: wordnet30
• 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)

  source: webster1913
• To remain alive; to continue to live. (verb)

  source: webster1913

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