Definitions for survive
sərˈvaɪvsur·vive

Princeton's WordNet(4.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. survive, last, live, live on, go, endure, hold up, hold out(verb)

   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?"

2. survive, pull through, pull round, come through, make it(verb)

   continue in existence after (an adversity, etc.)

   "He survived the cancer against all odds"

3. exist, survive, live, subsist(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"

4. outlive, outlast, survive(verb)

   live longer than

   "She outlived her husband by many years"

Wiktionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. survive(Verb)

   Of a person, to continue to live; to remain alive.

   Etymology: From survivre, survivre, from supervivere, from super + vivere, akin to vita; see vivid. Compare devive, revive.

2. survive(Verb)

   Of an object or concept, to continue to exist.

   Etymology: From survivre, survivre, from supervivere, from super + vivere, akin to vita; see vivid. Compare devive, revive.

3. survive(Verb)

   To live longer than, to outlive.

   Etymology: From survivre, survivre, from supervivere, from super + vivere, akin to vita; see vivid. Compare devive, revive.

4. survive(Verb)

   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.

Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Survive(verb)

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

   Etymology: [F. survivre, L. supervivere; super over + vivere to live. See Super-, and Victuals.]

2. Survive(verb)

   to remain alive; to continue to live

   Etymology: [F. survivre, L. supervivere; super over + vivere to live. See Super-, and Victuals.]

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1. 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(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. 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.]

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'survive' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #2929

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'survive' in Written Corpus Frequency: #2852

3. Verbs Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'survive' in Verbs Frequency: #292

Anagrams for survive »

1. viveurs

How to pronounce survive?

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   Daniel

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   Karen

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   Veena

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of survive in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of survive in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of survive in a Sentence

1. Adam Bise:

   If you don't understand why you're a Light, you won't survive when it gets the Dark".

2. Eric Perez-Grovas:

   Survive these three months, and you'll have a good market and pool of talent.

3. John Giedraitis:

   John Giedraitis called the experts in, pretty much all of them that were familiar with the way that this compound works on trees said that this is a dead tree, that it will not survive.

4. Dave Morris:

   Manufacturing, airplanes, train stations, department stores, sports stores -- theyre spreading it at a much quicker pace than I am, i just dont see it here. Were doing everything we can to try and sanitize and survive.

5. Andrew Chesnut:

   They all have a very strong sense of fatalism, young people’s lives don’t last long when they’re surrounded by organized crime, so for these young women the only option is to fight. If they do it wisely, they can survive a lot longer than their male counterparts.

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