survive
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: From Anglo-Norman survivre, Old French survivre, from Late Latin supervīvere (“to outlive”), from Latin super (“over”) + vivere (“to live”), akin to vita (“life”). See vivid. Compare devive, revive.
Inflected forms:
form: survives
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: surviving
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: survived
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: survived
pos: verb
tags: past
form: no-table-tags
pos: verb
tags: table-tags
form: glossary
pos: verb
tags: inflection-template
form: survive
pos: verb
tags: infinitive
form: survive
pos: verb
tags: first-person
present
singular
form: survived
pos: verb
tags: first-person
past
singular
form: survive
pos: verb
tags: present
second-person
singular
form: survivest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
second-person
singular
form: survived
pos: verb
tags: past
second-person
singular
form: survivedst
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: survives
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: surviveth
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
singular
third-person
form: survived
pos: verb
tags: past
singular
third-person
form: survive
pos: verb
tags: plural
present
form: survived
pos: verb
tags: past
plural
form: survive
pos: verb
tags: present
subjunctive
form: survived
pos: verb
tags: past
subjunctive
form: survive
pos: verb
tags: imperative
present
form: -
pos: verb
tags: imperative
past
form: surviving
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: survived
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
Senses:
gloss: Of a person, to continue to live; to remain alive.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Whether by a miracle or by good luck, all twenty passengers survived.
gloss: Of an object or concept, to continue to exist.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: This town has been hit by two hurricanes, but it survives.
gloss: To live past (a life-threatening event)
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Whether by a miracle or by good luck, all twenty passengers survived the crash.
He did not survive the accident.
This house has survived two hurricanes.
gloss: To live longer than (someone); to outlive (someone or something); to outlast (something).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: his children survived him;   he was survived by his children
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.
I am afraid, as will happen in other cases, the treaty of alliance has survived the amicable dispositions in which it had its origin.
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.
gloss: 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.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: I just know you'll get through this, because that's what survivors like you do: they not only survive but thrive.
gloss: Of a team, to avoid relegation or demotion to a lower division or league.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: They narrowly survived, but the heat is on.
Related words: convive
devive
revive
survival
vivid
Derived words: cryosurvive
nonsurviving
outsurvive
survivability
survivable
surviver
survivin
survivor
unsurvivability
unsurvived
unsurviving
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