Surviving
[sɚ'vaɪv]
Definition
(adj.) still in existence; 'the Wollemi pine found in Australia is a surviving specimen of a conifer thought to have been long extinct and therefore known as a living fossil'; 'the only surviving frontier blockhouse in Pennsylvania' .
Editor: William--From WordNet
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Survive
(a.) Remaining alive; yet living or existing; as, surviving friends; surviving customs.
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Examples
- 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.
- But from the point of view of the surviving mammalian life of the Miocene, they mattered profoundly. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Our only surviving servant drove us. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- And then the stinging fear of surviving either of you, is not here--one death will clasp us undivided. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- It is usual for the dying to beg forgiveness of their surviving friends if they have ever offended them. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- They made an unsuccessful siege of Lilyb?um, the chief surviving Carthaginian stronghold in Sicily. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Since parliament had elected him Ryland's deputy, all the surviving English had submitted to Adrian. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- His contemporary history of Alexander's campaigns has perished; but it was a source to which all the surviving accounts are deeply indebted. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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