What does survive mean?
Definitions for survive
sərˈvaɪvsur·vive
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Princeton's WordNet
survive, last, live, live on, go, endure, hold up, hold outverb
continue to live through hardship or adversity
"We went without water and food for 3 days"; "These superstitions survive in the backwaters of America"; "The race car driver lived through several very serious accidents"; "how long can a person last without food and water?"
survive, pull through, pull round, come through, make itverb
continue in existence after (an adversity, etc.)
"He survived the cancer against all odds"
exist, survive, live, subsistverb
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"
outlive, outlast, surviveverb
live longer than
"She outlived her husband by many years"
Wiktionary
surviveverb
Of a person, to continue to live; to remain alive.
surviveverb
Of an object or concept, to continue to exist.
surviveverb
To live longer than, to outlive.
surviveverb
To live past a life-threatening event.
He did not survive the accident.
Etymology: From survivre, survivre, from supervivere, from super + vivere, akin to vita; see vivid. Compare devive, revive.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
To Surviveverb
To outlive.
I’ll assure her of
Her widowhood, be it that she survives me,
In all my lands and leases whatsoever. William Shakespeare.To SURVIVEverb
Etymology: supervivo, Latin; survivre, Fr.
Those that survive, let Rome reward with love. William Shakespeare.
Try pleasure,
Which when no other enemy survives,
Still conquers all the conquerors. John Denham.Now that he is dead, his immortal fame surviveth, and flourisheth in the mouths of all people. Edmund Spenser.
The love of horses which they had alive,
And care of chariots after death survive. Dryden.The rhapsodies, called the characteristicks, would never have survived the first edition, if they had not discovered so strong a tincture of infidelity. Isaac Watts.
No longer now that golden age appears,
When patriarch-wits surviv’d a thousand years;
Now length of same, our second life, is lost,
And bare threescore is all ev’n that can boast;
Our sons their father’s failing language see,
And such as Geoffrey Chaucer is, shall John Dryden be. Alexander Pope.
Wikipedia
Survive
Survival, or the act of surviving, is the propensity of something to continue existing, particularly when this is done despite conditions that might kill or destroy it. The concept can be applied to humans and other living things (or, hypothetically, any sentient being), to physical object, and to abstract things such as beliefs or ideas. Living things generally have a self-preservation instinct to survive, while objects intended for use in harsh conditions are designed for survivability.
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survive
Survive generally means to remain living or existing despite certain challenges, adversities, or difficult circumstances. It refers to the ability to endure, sustain, or persist through obstacles or threats in order to continue to exist or function. Survival often involves adapting, making necessary adjustments, and utilizing various means or resources to overcome adversity and maintain one's existence.
Webster Dictionary
Surviveverb
to live beyond the life or existence of; to live longer than; to outlive; to outlast; as, to survive a person or an event
Surviveverb
to remain alive; to continue to live
Etymology: [F. survivre, L. supervivere; super over + vivere to live. See Super-, and Victuals.]
Wikidata
Survive
Survive is the ninth studio album by Japanese rock band B'z. The album sold 1,040,160 copies in its first week, lower than their last studio album, the album still managed to sell over 1,723,030 copies.
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Survive
sur-vīv′, v.t. to live beyond: to outlive.—v.i. to remain alive.—n. Survī′val, a surviving or living after: any custom or belief surviving in folklore from a more or less savage earlier state of society, long after the philosophy or rationale of it is forgotten.—p.adj. Survī′ving, continuing alive: outliving.—ns. Survī′vor, one who survives or lives after another; Survī′vorship.—Survival of the fittest, the preservation of favourable variations, attended with the destruction of injurious ones, such being the result of Natural Selection (see Natural). [Fr.,—L. super, beyond, vivĕre, to live.]
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Spoken Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'survive' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #2929
Written Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'survive' in Written Corpus Frequency: #2852
Verbs Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'survive' in Verbs Frequency: #292
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of survive in Chaldean Numerology is: 2
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of survive in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8
Examples of survive in a Sentence
Yes, we should listen to the government, but we all have our own situations, we can not always swallow whatever the government says. We can not survive without working, we can not stop going out altogether.
We can't begin to understand what God has planned for us, But we face each day with a smile, and in his name we trust For in this vast world.....is Love If only we could see the dove It seems sometimes he doesn't care When things get rough and hard to bear But with our Faith we can survive Because in our hearts HE is Alive
I schedule my workouts during the workday and prioritize exercise over all my work activities, there is some flexibility, but if there is a conflict between a trail run I need to get in and a meeting with a client, I’ll reschedule the client meeting first. I do this because I and my business can survive the consequences of rescheduling a client meeting, even if it means losing that client. But as soon as I start pushing workouts off, I’ll start missing workouts, and once I start missing workouts, I’m close to stopping workouts altogether.
What can happen is people are going to die, they have no food, they have no water. How are they going to survive there?
They're upset about what is going on, and this is what is happening for our people every day. So the whole situation has got the border region upset and and we're trying to survive day to day -- then they receive a few of these people in their communities and they're screaming for help when our border sheriffs cannot get any help.
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- перажываць, перажыцьBelarusian
- sobreviureCatalan, Valencian
- přežívat, přežítCzech
- overleveDanish
- überlebenGerman
- επιβιώνω, επιζώ, γλιτώνωGreek
- postviviEsperanto
- sobrevivirSpanish
- selviytyä, jäädä eloon, jäädä henkiinFinnish
- survivreFrench
- tar slán, tarIrish
- sobrevivirGalician
- जीवित रहने केHindi
- tovább él, életben marad, túlélHungarian
- superviverInterlingua
- sopravvivereItalian
- 生き抜く, 生き残ります, 生き残るJapanese
- 살아남 다Korean
- supersto, superstitem sum, supersum, reliquus sum, supestitem sum, vitam supero, vivoLatin
- overleveNorwegian
- overlevenDutch
- leve lenger enn, overleveNorwegian
- przeżyć, przeżywaćPolish
- sobreviverPortuguese
- supraviețuiRomanian
- выжить, переживать, пережить, остаться в живых, оставаться в живых, выживатьRussian
- preživeti, преживети, опстати, opstatiSerbo-Croatian
- prežívať, prežiťSlovak
- obstati, preživetiSlovene
- överlevaSwedish
- hayatta kalmakTurkish
- переживати, пережитиUkrainian
- زندہ رہناUrdu
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