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- pronunciation:
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vaIv
- features:
- Word Parts
| part of speech: |
verb |
| inflections: |
survives, surviving, survived |
| definition 1: |
When you survive, you continue to live after something very dangerous has happened. When you survive, you do not die.
The plane crashed, but somehow all the passengers survived.- similar words:
- exist
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| definition 2: |
When people, animals, or plants survive, they are able to stay alive even though it is hard. When a thing survives, it continues to exist.
The family had almost no money, but somehow they survived.This kind of plant can survive in the desert.Only a few of these very old paintings still survive.- synonyms:
- last
- antonyms:
- die, disappear
- similar words:
- continue, exist, persist, remain
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| definition 3: |
When you survive something, it means that you live through it. It does not kill you.
Most of the people in the village survived the flood, but a few lost their lives.The pilot was lucky to survive the crash.- synonyms:
- weather
- similar words:
- endure, withstand
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| related words: |
brave, cope, exist, live, manage, overcome |
| derivations: |
survivable (adj.), surviving (adj.), survivability (n.) |
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