Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- intransitive v. To remain alive or in existence.
- intransitive v. To carry on despite hardships or trauma; persevere: families that were surviving in tents after the flood.
- intransitive v. To remain functional or usable: I dropped the radio, but it survived.
- transitive v. To live longer than; outlive: She survived her husband by five years.
- transitive v. To live, persist, or remain usable through: plants that can survive frosts; a clock that survived a fall.
- transitive v. To cope with (a trauma or setback); persevere after: survived child abuse.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- 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.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- intransitive v. To remain alive; to continue to live.
- transitive v. To live beyond the life or existence of; to live longer than; to outlive; to outlast.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- 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.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- v. continue to live through hardship or adversity
- v. support oneself
- v. continue in existence after (an adversity, etc.)
- v. live longer than
Etymologies
Examples
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I agree that at least it's likely that "Christianist" (should the term survive past the end of the week) is/will be (a) cast mostly in a pejorative context and (b) will be used more broadly than its current definition - that is, it will be wielded by certain individuals against all Christians with socially conservative views.
Why not engage with me instead of trying to make me into your enemy?
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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.
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Still, the only way for newspapers to survive is to explore, discuss and debate a wide range of ideas.
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So Reid's only chance to survive is to take some of these people who don't feel so good about him and get them to feel very badly about Sharron Angle and perhaps hold their nose and vote for him - or, because we have this crazy none of the above on the ballot here, vote none of the above.
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Attacked and hunted, their only chance to survive is to find a way back to the surface.
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If you are ugly and maybe fat your only chance to survive is to become as disgusting on the inside as you (obviously) are on the outside (ARGH!) by becoming a villain.
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As some have said above, there are alternative lifeboats and the way to survive is to get in them.
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The only way to survive is to blaze your own path!
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Coturnix says the way to survive is to be smart and invisible.
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In a country ruled by fear, the best way to survive is to draw as little attention to yourself as possible.
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