Survive
[sə'vaɪv] or [sɚ'vaɪv]
Definition
(verb.) continue to live through hardship or adversity; 'We went without water and food for 3 days'; 'These superstitions survive in the backwaters of America'; 'The race car driver lived through several very serious accidents'; 'how long can a person last without food and water?'.
(verb.) continue in existence after (an adversity, etc.); 'He survived the cancer against all odds'.
Checker: Mortimer--From WordNet
Definition
(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.
(v. i.) To remain alive; to continue to live.
Inputed by Angela
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. n. Remain alive, continue to live, live on.
v. a. Outlive, live longer than.
Edited by Antony
Definition
v.t. to live beyond: to outlive.—v.i. to remain alive.—n. Survī′val a surviving or living after: any custom or belief surviving in folklore from a more or less savage earlier state of society long after the philosophy or rationale of it is forgotten.—p.adj. Survī′ving continuing alive: outliving.—ns. Survī′vor one who survives or lives after another; Survī′vorship.—Survival of the fittest the preservation of favourable variations attended with the destruction of injurious ones such being the result of Natural Selection (see Natural).
Typist: Shirley
Examples
- After which the renowned Valerian (if he survive,) will fight with the broad-sword, LEFT HANDED! Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Many of these plants took the form of huge-stemmed trees, of which great multitudes of trunks survive fossilized to this day. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Such sculptures as those of Phidias, Myron, and Polyclitus that still survive, witness to the artistic quality of the time. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Should we, any of us, survive the coming summer? Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- And they would survive to enslave thee again. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- No doubt I will survive that accusation. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- These therefore must be the same with self; since the one cannot survive the other. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- The great ox, or aurochs, is now extinct, but it survived in the German forests up to the time of the Roman Empire. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He was also a philosopher, though none of his wisdom has survived. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- And in the fighting soon there was no purity of feeling for those who survived the fighting and were good at it. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Each one of these ideas was born of an original need, served its historical function and survived beyond its allotted time. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- My child survived. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- He only survived for a few hours afterwards, and the indignation of the ship's crew was at boiling point when young Hale wrote. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- The fate of Miriam had indeed been to fall a sacrifice to the fanaticism of the times; but her secrets had survived in her apt pupil. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- The soul survives its adventures, says Chesterton with a splendid sense of justice. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- A modification of the ambrotype, however, still survives in what is known as the tin-type or ferro-type. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Grass was now spreading over the world, and with this extension arose some huge graminivorous brutes of which no representative survives to-day. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It survives for many reasons. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- One of the most interesting and informing of these prehistoric compositions of the Aryans survives in the Greek _Iliad_. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Much of his work of consolidation and organization in India survives to this day. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The taste for caterpillars still survives in China, where they are sold in dried bundles in the markets. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The PRINCIPAL to go to Sir Percival Glyde, in the event of his surviving Lady Glyde, and there being no issue. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Then I referred to Adrian, her loved brother, and to her surviving child. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- I owe this to Greece, to you, to my surviving Perdita, and to myself, the victim of ambition. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Sign it--“Veller”,' said the oldest surviving proprietor of that name. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Were they, surviving Adrian and myself, to find themselves protectorless in the world? Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- To-day within the Socialist Party there is perhaps the greatest surviving example of the desire to offset natural leadership by artificial contrivance. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- THE NARRATIVE OF WALTER HARTRIGHT Early in the summer of 1850 I and my surviving companions left the wilds and forests of Central America for home. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
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