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verb-intransitive. To remain alive or in existence.

verb-intransitive. To carry on despite hardships or trauma; persevere: families that were surviving in tents after the flood.

verb-intransitive. To remain functional or usable: I dropped the radio, but it survived.

v. To live longer than; outlive: She survived her husband by five years.

v. To live, persist, or remain usable through: plants that can survive frosts; a clock that survived a fall.

v. To cope with (a trauma or setback); persevere after: survived child abuse.

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

v. Of an object or concept, to continue to exist.

v. To live longer than; to outlive.

v. To live past a life-threatening event.

v. To live beyond the life or existence of; to live longer than; to outlive; to outlast.

verb-intransitive. To remain alive; to continue to live.

To outlive; live or exist beyond the life or existence of; outlast beyond some specified point of time, or some given person, thing, event, or circumstance: as, to survive one's usefulness.

Synonyms Outlive, Survive. See outline.

To remain alive or in existence; specifically, to remain alive after the death or cessation of some one or something.

v. continue to live through hardship or adversity

v. support oneself

v. continue in existence after (an adversity, etc.)

v. live longer than

"Win two out of three, and the Nittany Lions are in the first Big Ten championship game -- playing for the, ahem, Stagg-Paterno trophy, should the name survive this tumult."

predecease   

survived    survives    surviving   

defeat    overcome    get the better of   

live out    perennate    holdup    stand up    hold water    freewheel    breathe    drift   

survived    surviving   

outlive    outlast   

Clive    Dr    Dr.    alive    arrive    clyve    connive    contrive    deprive    derive