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Wordnet 3.0

VERB (4)

1. continue to live through hardship or adversity;
- Example: "We went without water and food for 3 days"
- Example: "These superstitions survive in the backwaters of America"
- Example: "The race car driver lived through several very serious accidents"
- Example: "how long can a person last without food and water?"
[syn: survive, last, live, live on, go, endure, hold up, hold out]

2. continue in existence after (an adversity, etc.);
- Example: "He survived the cancer against all odds"
[syn: survive, pull through, pull round, come through, make it]

3. support oneself;
- Example: "he could barely exist on such a low wage"
- Example: "Can you live on $2000 a month in New York City?"
- Example: "Many people in the world have to subsist on $1 a day"
[syn: exist, survive, live, subsist]

4. live longer than;
- Example: "She outlived her husband by many years"
[syn: outlive, outlast, survive]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Survive \Sur*vive"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Survived; p. pr. &
   vb. n. Surviving.] [F. survivre, L. supervivere; super over
   + vivere to live. See Super-, and Victuals.]
   To live beyond the life or existence of; to live longer than;
   to outlive; to outlast; as, to survive a person or an event.
   --Cowper.
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         I'll assure her of
         Her widowhood, be it that she survive me,
         In all my lands and leases whatsoever.   --Shak.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Survive \Sur*vive"\, v. i.
   To remain alive; to continue to live.
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         Thy pleasure,
         Which, when no other enemy survives,
         Still conquers all the conquerors.       --Sir J.
                                                  Denham.
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         Alike are life and death,
         When life in death survives.             --Longfellow.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

survive
    v 1: 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?" [syn: survive,
         last, live, live on, go, endure, hold up, hold
         out]
    2: continue in existence after (an adversity, etc.); "He
       survived the cancer against all odds" [syn: survive, pull
       through, pull round, come through, make it] [ant:
       succumb, yield]
    3: 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" [syn:
       exist, survive, live, subsist]
    4: live longer than; "She outlived her husband by many years"
       [syn: outlive, outlast, survive]