1. survive - verb
· continue to live and avoid dying; "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?" "One crash victim died, the other lived"
Synonym(s): last, live, live_on, go, endure, hold_up, hold_out
2. survive - verb
· continue in existence after (an adversity, etc.); "He survived the cancer against all odds"
Synonym(s): pull_through, pull_round, come_through, make_it
Hypernym(s): get_the_better_of, overcome, defeat
Antonym(s): succumb
3. survive - verb
· support oneself; "he could barely exist on such a low wage"; "Can you live on $2000 a month in New York City?"; "Many people in the world have to subsist on $1 a day"
Synonym(s): exist, live, subsist
4. survive - verb
· live longer than; "She outlived her husband by many years"
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