survive

IPA: sɝvˈaɪv

(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.

Examples of "survive" in Sentences

The only way to survive is to blaze your own path!
Coturnix says the way to survive is to be smart and invisible.
Attacked and hunted, their only chance to survive is to find a way back to the surface.
As some have said above, there are alternative lifeboats and the way to survive is to get in them.
Still, the only way for newspapers to survive is to explore, discuss and debate a wide range of ideas.
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.
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.
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.
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.