- survive
- [[t]sə(r)va͟ɪv[/t]]
♦♦survives, surviving, survived1) VERB If a person or living thing survives in a dangerous situation such as an accident or an illness, they do not die.
...the sequence of events that left the eight pupils battling to survive in icy seas for over four hours...
Those organisms that are that are most suited to the environment will be those that will survive...
[V n] Drugs that dissolve blood clots can help people survive heart attacks.
2) VERB If you survive in difficult circumstances, you manage to live or continue in spite of them and do not let them affect you very much.On my first day here I thought, `Ooh, how will I survive?'
...people who are struggling to survive without jobs...
[V on n] Where once she had been totally self-sufficient, she now had to survive on income support.
[V n] ...a man who had survived his share of boardroom coups.
3) VERB If something survives, it continues to exist even after being in a dangerous situation or existing for a long time.When the market economy is introduced, many factories will not survive...
[V n] The chances of a planet surviving a supernova always looked terribly slim.
[V-ing] ...surviving examples of 19th-century architecture in the Mid-West.
4) VERB If you survive someone, you continue to live after they have died.[V n] Most women will survive their spouses...
[V n] She is survived by two daughters from her first marriage.
[V-ing] ...William Shakespeare's last surviving descendant.
English dictionary. 2008.
