survive
IPA: sɝvˈaɪv
verb
- (intransitive) Of a person, to continue to live; to remain alive.
- (intransitive) Of an object or concept, to continue to exist.
- (transitive) To live longer than; to outlive.
- (transitive) To live past a life-threatening event.
- (transitive) To be a victim of usually non-fatal harm, to honor and empower the strength of an individual to heal, in particular a living victim of sexual abuse or assault.
- (transitive, sports) Of a team, to avoid relegation or demotion to a lower division or league.
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Examples of "survive" in Sentences
- The text of the homily survives.
- The child and the nurse survived.
- The cult survived the reformation.
- The remainder of the crew survived.
- The boy is survived by the transfusion.
- The bodyguard that survived the kidnapping.
- The instinct to survive and to continue to live.
- It lived in the Pleistocene and survived into the Holocene.
- These are the instincts to survive and to continue to live.
- He manages to survive a hellish existence for the next 20 years in the mines.