# survive
## English
### Etymology

From Anglo-Norman survivre, Old French survivre, from Late Latin supervivere (“to outlive”), from Latin super (“over”) + vivere (“to live”), akin to vita (“life”). See vivid. Compare devive, revive.

### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /səˈvaɪv/, /səˈvʌɪv/
* (US) IPA: /sɚˈvaɪv/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -aɪv

### Verb

survive (third-person singular simple present survives, present participle surviving, simple past and past participle survived)
* (intransitive) Of a person, to continue to live; to remain alive.
    Whether by a miracle or by good luck, all twenty passengers survived.
* (intransitive) Of an object or concept, to continue to exist.
    This town has been hit by two hurricanes, but it survives.
* (transitive) To live longer than (someone); to outlive (someone or something); to live past (a life-threatening event); to outlast (something).
    Synonym: overlive (uncommon)
    Antonym: predecease
    Hyponym: postdecease
    Whether by a miracle or by good luck, all twenty passengers survived the crash.
    his children survived him;   he was survived by his children
    He did not survive the accident.
    This house has survived two hurricanes.
** c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:And for that dowrie, Ile aſſure her of / Her widdow-hood, be it that ſhe ſuruiue me / In all my Lands and Leaſes whatſoeuer / Let ſpecialties be therefore drawne betweene vs, / That couenants may be kept on either hand.
** 1817 December 31 (indicated as 1818), [Walter Scott], chapter X, in Rob Roy. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co. […]; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC, page 227:I am afraid, as will happen in other cases, the treaty of alliance has survived the amicable dispositions in which it had its origin.
** 2020 January 22, Stuart Jeffries, “Terry Jones obituary”, in The Guardian‎:Jones is survived by his second wife, Anna (nee Söderström), whom he married in 2012, and their daughter, Siri; and by Bill and Sally, the children of his first marriage, to Alison Telfer, which ended in divorce.
* (transitive) To be a victim of nonfatal but substantial harm and nonetheless to display the strength to heal; especially, after a crime or an illness, especially sexual or physical abuse or assault, cancer, or a natural disaster.
    I just know you'll get through this, because that's what survivors like you do — they not only survive but thrive.
* (transitive, sports) Of a team, to avoid relegation or demotion to a lower division or league.
    They narrowly survived, but the heat is on.

#### Related terms

* convive
* devive
* revive
* survival (noun)
* vivid

#### Further reading

* “survive”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
* William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “survive”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

### Anagrams

* viveurs

## French
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /syʁ.viv/
* Homophones: survives, survivent

### Verb

survive
* first/third-person singular present subjunctive of survivre