Definitions for survive
sərˈvaɪvsur·vive

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:4.0 / 1 vote

1. 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?"

2. survive, pull through, pull round, come through, make itverb

   continue in existence after (an adversity, etc.)

   "He survived the cancer against all odds"

3. 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"

4. outlive, outlast, surviveverb

   live longer than

   "She outlived her husband by many years"

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. surviveverb

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

2. surviveverb

   Of an object or concept, to continue to exist.

3. surviveverb

   To live longer than, to outlive.

4. surviveverb

   To live past a life-threatening event.

   He did not survive the accident.

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

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. 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.

2. To SURVIVEverb

   Etymology: supervivo, Latin; survivre, Fr.

   1. To live after the death of another.

   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.

   2. To live after any thing.

   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.

   3. To remain alive.

   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.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. 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.

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. 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 DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. 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

2. Surviveverb

   to remain alive; to continue to live

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

WikidataRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

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 DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

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

Usage in printed sourcesFrom: 

1. [["1507","1"],["1515","3"],["1563","5"],["1575","2"],["1579","2"],["1584","3"],["1587","12"],["1590","2"],["1592","1"],["1600","2"],["1607","2"],["1618","1"],["1624","4"],["1635","1"],["1640","1"],["1643","1"],["1644","1"],["1645","1"],["1648","2"],["1649","3"],["1657","5"],["1659","4"],["1661","4"],["1662","3"],["1664","2"],["1665","2"],["1667","1"],["1668","7"],["1669","3"],["1670","6"],["1671","1"],["1672","1"],["1673","7"],["1675","18"],["1676","2"],["1677","6"],["1678","9"],["1679","1"],["1680","7"],["1681","3"],["1682","2"],["1683","11"],["1684","9"],["1685","7"],["1686","2"],["1687","8"],["1688","6"],["1690","2"],["1691","8"],["1692","1"],["1693","2"],["1694","3"],["1695","1"],["1696","4"],["1697","6"],["1698","2"],["1699","5"],["1700","10"],["1701","8"],["1702","17"],["1703","31"],["1704","35"],["1705","14"],["1706","69"],["1707","22"],["1708","16"],["1709","7"],["1710","32"],["1711","19"],["1712","20"],["1713","18"],["1714","57"],["1715","45"],["1716","15"],["1717","42"],["1718","16"],["1719","10"],["1720","29"],["1721","25"],["1722","38"],["1723","51"],["1724","76"],["1725","61"],["1726","33"],["1727","37"],["1728","62"],["1729","52"],["1730","44"],["1731","35"],["1732","53"],["1733","23"],["1734","54"],["1735","31"],["1736","36"],["1737","67"],["1738","47"],["1739","55"],["1740","41"],["1741","42"],["1742","40"],["1743","37"],["1744","64"],["1745","40"],["1746","35"],["1747","65"],["1748","45"],["1749","30"],["1750","153"],["1751","59"],["1752","53"],["1753","109"],["1754","99"],["1755","70"],["1756","33"],["1757","51"],["1758","100"],["1759","97"],["1760","67"],["1761","110"],["1762","50"],["1763","81"],["1764","101"],["1765","91"],["1766","113"],["1767","97"],["1768","147"],["1769","101"],["1770","157"],["1771","113"],["1772","96"],["1773","158"],["1774","133"],["1775","132"],["1776","124"],["1777","169"],["1778","109"],["1779","110"],["1780","125"],["1781","184"],["1782","136"],["1783","160"],["1784","157"],["1785","161"],["1786","127"],["1787","227"],["1788","486"],["1789","293"],["1790","288"],["1791","261"],["1792","309"],["1793","250"],["1794","360"],["1795","432"],["1796","436"],["1797","505"],["1798","401"],["1799","375"],["1800","461"],["1801","771"],["1802","748"],["1803","852"],["1804","1043"],["1805","897"],["1806","1089"],["1807","946"],["1808","882"],["1809","1012"],["1810","948"],["1811","1264"],["1812","1213"],["1813","936"],["1814","1015"],["1815","1107"],["1816","1197"],["1817","1228"],["1818","1389"],["1819","1226"],["1820","1615"],["1821","1411"],["1822","1669"],["1823","1696"],["1824","1995"],["1825","2354"],["1826","1931"],["1827","1754"],["1828","1940"],["1829","1895"],["1830","2333"],["1831","2315"],["1832","2182"],["1833","2145"],["1834","2116"],["1835","2635"],["1836","2686"],["1837","2659"],["1838","2533"],["1839","2681"],["1840","3013"],["1841","2611"],["1842","2191"],["1843","2408"],["1844","2904"],["1845","3094"],["1846","3167"],["1847","2949"],["1848","3247"],["1849","3421"],["1850","3833"],["1851","3685"],["1852","3784"],["1853","4191"],["1854","4763"],["1855","3939"],["1856","4248"],["1857","4041"],["1858","3899"],["1859","4279"],["1860","4343"],["1861","3421"],["1862","2737"],["1863","2800"],["1864","3565"],["1865","3448"],["1866","3557"],["1867","3658"],["1868","3486"],["1869","3661"],["1870","3936"],["1871","3722"],["1872","4127"],["1873","4466"],["1874","4561"],["1875","4192"],["1876","5131"],["1877","4830"],["1878","4613"],["1879","4521"],["1880","5681"],["1881","5680"],["1882","6722"],["1883","7157"],["1884","6727"],["1885","6926"],["1886","5663"],["1887","6091"],["1888","6391"],["1889","6153"],["1890","6414"],["1891","7009"],["1892","8214"],["1893","8120"],["1894","7635"],["1895","8595"],["1896","9510"],["1897","9191"],["1898","8867"],["1899","10839"],["1900","12105"],["1901","11030"],["1902","11383"],["1903","10182"],["1904","11665"],["1905","11415"],["1906","12506"],["1907","13106"],["1908","12791"],["1909","11940"],["1910","12506"],["1911","12117"],["1912","14115"],["1913","13409"],["1914","12302"],["1915","11790"],["1916","11795"],["1917","11041"],["1918","10849"],["1919","11032"],["1920","14079"],["1921","12709"],["1922","14759"],["1923","12237"],["1924","11083"],["1925","11939"],["1926","11307"],["1927","13265"],["1928","13544"],["1929","12351"],["1930","13634"],["1931","14845"],["1932","12761"],["1933","10200"],["1934","13037"],["1935","14883"],["1936","15096"],["1937","14957"],["1938","15251"],["1939","17349"],["1940","16763"],["1941","15491"],["1942","14916"],["1943","12472"],["1944","12337"],["1945","14383"],["1946","17828"],["1947","20130"],["1948","22772"],["1949","24355"],["1950","23760"],["1951","24645"],["1952","24592"],["1953","25294"],["1954","25912"],["1955","28356"],["1956","28515"],["1957","31452"],["1958","32046"],["1959","33464"],["1960","39947"],["1961","44467"],["1962","50273"],["1963","52739"],["1964","52777"],["1965","59389"],["1966","61765"],["1967","66583"],["1968","74854"],["1969","73008"],["1970","79699"],["1971","83950"],["1972","87387"],["1973","87041"],["1974","86848"],["1975","88132"],["1976","89901"],["1977","94082"],["1978","94103"],["1979","100314"],["1980","100132"],["1981","103817"],["1982","112274"],["1983","118863"],["1984","122180"],["1985","126089"],["1986","134977"],["1987","137408"],["1988","143482"],["1989","155684"],["1990","166400"],["1991","167253"],["1992","181844"],["1993","185807"],["1994","196425"],["1995","205601"],["1996","217741"],["1997","222736"],["1998","235056"],["1999","246171"],["2000","286324"],["2001","281357"],["2002","315065"],["2003","325989"],["2004","347725"],["2005","342702"],["2006","355298"],["2007","363211"],["2008","364421"]]

Anagrams for survive »

1. viveurs

How to pronounce survive?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say survive in sign language?

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. Veronika Didusenko:

   It took us two days to get out of Ukraine because of huge traffic jams, everyone was rushing to the border as well. I was driving with military cars on one side and tanks on the other side with Russian helicopters flying above my head. I was very scared for my life and my son’s. There wasn’t enough food, enough water. You especially couldn’t sleep with the sirens going on all the time. Every noise from a car or plane made me look around. I was worried that it was a rocket, a bomb or someone shooting. I can’t even begin to imagine what the people who stayed are going through. I knew I had to survive.

2. Osayi Osunde:

   If we take away the last way we can make revenue, we wont be able to survive this one.

3. Evan McMullin:

   The real goal here is to ... defend the votes and values of the Republican Party that I once knew, the Republican Party can't survive, it can't lead, with people like Dan Bishop.

4. Kuduni Sherpa:

   We all rushed out to the open and the next moment a huge wall of snow just piled on me, i managed to dig out of what could easily have been my grave. I wiggled and used my claws to dig as much as I could. I was suffocating, I could not breathe. But I knew I had to survive.

5. Chandan Jha:

   Whether or not Bed Bath & Bed Bath Beyond loyalty programs would survive also depends, in part, on whether the company goes through Chapter 11 bankruptcy, known as restructuring, or Chapter 7 bankruptcy, that is, liquidation, if Bed Bath Beyond is Bed Bath Beyond, then there’s a very, very high chance that the reward programs will survive and the company will honor any existing rewards and coupons. After all, the company would not want to lose their customers and these loyalty programs or loyalty rewards are made to retain customers.

Popularity rank by frequency of use

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=survive
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Survive
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=survive
4. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survive
5. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
6. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/survive
7. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=survive
8. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=survive
9. ^ Usage in printed sources
   https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=survive