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survive

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Etymology

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FromAnglo-Normansurvivre,Old Frenchsurvivre, fromLate Latinsupervivere(“to outlive”), fromLatinsuper(“over”) +vivere(“to live”), akin tovita(“life”). Seevivid. Comparedevive,revive.

Pronunciation

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

Verb

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survive (third-person singular simple presentsurvives,present participlesurviving,simple past and past participlesurvived)

(intransitive) Of a person, to continue tolive; to remainalive.
Whether by a miracle or by good luck, all twenty passengerssurvived.
(intransitive) Of an object or concept, to continue toexist.
This town has been hit by two hurricanes, but itsurvives.
(transitive) Tolive past (a life-threatening event)
Synonym:overlive(uncommon)
Whether by a miracle or by good luck, all twenty passengerssurvived the crash.
He did notsurvive the accident.
This house hassurvived two hurricanes.
(transitive) Tolive longer than (someone); tooutlive (someone or something); tooutlast (something).
Synonym:overlive(uncommon)
Antonym:predecease
Hyponym:postdecease
his childrensurvived him; he wassurvived by his children
- c.1590–1592 (date written),William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, inMr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, andEd[ward] Blount, published1623,→OCLC,[Act II, scene i]:
  And for that dowrie, Ile aſſure her of / Her widdow-hood, be it that ſheſuruiue 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 as1818), [Walter Scott], chapter X, inRob Roy. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. forArchibald Constable and Co. […]; London:Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown,→OCLC,page227:
  I am afraid, as will happen in other cases, the treaty of alliance hassurvived the amicable dispositions in which it had its origin.
- 2020 January 22, Stuart Jeffries, “Terry Jones obituary”, inThe Guardian‎^[1]:
  Jones issurvived 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.
(intransitive) 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 physicalabuse orassault,cancer, or anatural disaster.
I just know you'll get through this, because that's what survivors like you do: they not onlysurvive but thrive.
(intransitive, sports) Of a team, toavoid relegation ordemotion to a lowerdivision orleague.
They narrowlysurvived, but the heat is on.

Conjugation

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Conjugation ofsurvive
	present tense	past tense
infinitive	(to)survive

1st-person singular	survive	survived
2nd-person singular	survive,survivest^†	survived,survivedst^†
3rd-person singular	survives,surviveth^†	survived
plural	survive	survived

subjunctive	survive	survived

imperative	survive	—

participles	surviving	survived