survive

present singular third person survives · participle present surviving · participle past survived · past survived · first person past singular survived · archaic present second person singular survivest · past second person singular survived · archaic past second person singular survivedst · present singular third person survives · archaic present singular third person surviveth · past singular third person survived · past plural survived · past subjunctive survived · participle present surviving · participle past survived

1. intransitiveTo continue to live; to remain alive.

   Whether by a miracle or by good luck, all twenty passengers survived.

2. intransitiveTo continue to exist.

   This town has been hit by two hurricanes, but it survives.

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   Well, Faithful, thou hast faithfully profest Unto thy Lord; with whom thou shalt be blest, When faithless ones, with all their vain delights, Are crying out under their hellish plights: Sing, Faithful, sing, and let thy name survive; For though they kill'd thee, thou art yet alive!

   1678, John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress

3. transitiveTo live past (a life-threatening event)

   He did not survive the accident.

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   Whether by a miracle or by good luck, all twenty passengers survived the crash.

   This house has survived two hurricanes.

   Synonyms: overlive

4. transitiveTo live longer than (someone); to outlive (someone or something); to outlast (something).

   His children survived him.

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   He was survived by his children.

   And for that dowrie, Ile aſſure her of / Her widdow-hood, be it that ſhe ſuruiue me / In all my Lands and Leaſes whatſoeuer / Let ſpecialties be therefore drawne betweene vs, / That couenants may be kept on either hand.

   c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]

   I am afraid, as will happen in other cases, the treaty of alliance has survived the amicable dispositions in which it had its origin.

   1817 December 31 (indicated as 1818), [Walter Scott], chapter X, in Rob Roy. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co. […]; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC, page 227

   Jones is survived by his second wife, Anna (nee Söderström), whom he married in 2012, and their daughter, Siri; and by Bill and Sally, the children of his first marriage, to Alison Telfer, which ended in divorce.

   2020 January 22, Stuart Jeffries, “Terry Jones obituary”, in The Guardian

   Synonyms: overlive · Antonyms: predecease

5. intransitiveTo be a victim of nonfatal but substantial harm and nonetheless to display the strength to heal; especially, after a crime or an illness, especially sexual or physical abuse or assault, cancer, or a natural disaster.

   I just know you'll get through this, because that's what survivors like you do: they not only survive but thrive.

6. intransitivehobbiesTo avoid relegation or demotion to a lower division or league.

   They narrowly survived, but the heat is on.