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Definition of Survive

1. Verb. Continue to live through hardship or adversity. "The business is going to survive "; "How long can a person last without food and water?"

2. Verb. Continue in existence after (an adversity, etc.). "The business is going to survive "; "He survived the cancer against all odds"

3. Verb. Support oneself. "Many people in the world have to subsist on $1 a day"

4. Verb. Live longer than. "She outlived her husband by many years"

Definition of Survive

1. v. t. 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. v. i. To remain alive; to continue to live.

Definition of Survive

1. Verb. (intransitive) Of a person, to continue to live; to remain alive. ¹

2. Verb. (intransitive) Of an object or concept, to continue to exist. ¹

3. Verb. (transitive) To live longer than, to outlive. ¹

4. Verb. (transitive) To live past a life-threatening event. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Survive

1. to remain in existence [v -VIVED, -VIVING, -VIVES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Survive

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survivalists survivals survivance survivances survive (current term) survived surviver survivers survives survivin

surviving surviving spouse surviving spouses survivor survivor guilt survivors survivors insurance survivorship survivorship annuity

Literary usage of Survive

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Commentaries on American Law by James Kent (1873)
"(2) When Powers survive. — A naked authority, without interest, given to several persons, does not survive ; and it was a rule of the common law, ..."

2. Commentaries on American Law by James Kent (1854)
"When powers survive, A naked authority, without interest, given to several persons, does not survive; and it was a rule of the common law, ..."

3. Commentaries on American Law by James Kent, George Franklin Comstock (1866)
"When powers survive. A. naked authority, without interest, given to several persons, does not survive; and it was a rule of the common law, ..."

4. The History of the Norman Conquest of England: Its Causes and Its Results by Edward Augustus Freeman (1879)
"... and these last grew into the highest offices of the realm, offices so high that most of them now only survive Survival in a fragmentary state. ..."

5. The History of the Norman Conquest of England: Its Causes and Its Results by Edward Augustus Freeman (1876)
"... now only survive in a fragmentary state. The Lord High Constable has passed away ; the Lord Great Chamberlain, the Lord High Steward, the Earl Marshal, ..."

6. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"Those individuals have evidently a better chance to survive VI.—41 who oppose their enemies as a body, and therefore who live in societies (flocks, herds, ..."

7. Commentaries on American Law by James Kent (1873)
"(2) When Powers survive. — A naked authority, without interest, given to several persons, does not survive ; and it was a rule of the common law, ..."

8. Commentaries on American Law by James Kent (1854)
"When powers survive, A naked authority, without interest, given to several persons, does not survive; and it was a rule of the common law, ..."

9. Commentaries on American Law by James Kent, George Franklin Comstock (1866)
"When powers survive. A. naked authority, without interest, given to several persons, does not survive; and it was a rule of the common law, ..."

10. The History of the Norman Conquest of England: Its Causes and Its Results by Edward Augustus Freeman (1879)
"... and these last grew into the highest offices of the realm, offices so high that most of them now only survive Survival in a fragmentary state. ..."

11. The History of the Norman Conquest of England: Its Causes and Its Results by Edward Augustus Freeman (1876)
"... now only survive in a fragmentary state. The Lord High Constable has passed away ; the Lord Great Chamberlain, the Lord High Steward, the Earl Marshal, ..."

12. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"Those individuals have evidently a better chance to survive VI.—41 who oppose their enemies as a body, and therefore who live in societies (flocks, herds, ..."

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