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UK
/səvˈaɪv/
]
[ US /sɝˈvaɪv/ ]
[ US /sɝˈvaɪv/ ]
VERB
-
live longer than
She outlived her husband by many years -
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 -
continue to live and avoid dying
One crash victim died, the other lived
The race car driver lived through several very serious accidents
We went without water and food for 3 days
how long can a person last without food and water?
These superstitions survive in the backwaters of America -
continue in existence after (an adversity, etc.)
He survived the cancer against all odds
How To Use survive In A Sentence
- The residents are mostly impoverished families who survive by collecting recyclable garbage.
- What do a few lives matter now if we can find new, unpolluted territories and new ways to survive? THE ANCIENT AND SOLITARY REIGN
- The baby was born with a heart problem and only survived for a few hours.
- I love the way Sarajevans express themselves; it's a kind of world-weary, mordant wit overlying an amazing ability to absorb and survive great suffering. A Conversation with Geraldine Brooks about People of the Book
- Here, however, they are unlikely to survive the frosts although both impatiens and pelagoniums can be kept for next year in a heated greenhouse or brought indoors and used as house plants.
- She is also survived by her sons, daughters and sister-in-law.
- It still perplexes Kross that he survived while the firefighter on the other side of Josephine, Sergeant Bacco, did not. Humble 9/11 hero relives tale of the twin towers for tourists
- A dried-out horseshoe crab is a delicate thing and there's no way it would survive the flight in my checked baggage. Horseshoe Crabs and the TSA
- Cultural practices have survived or fallen only in part because of their effect on the strength of the group, and those which have survived are usually burdened with unnecessary impedimenta.
- Of those who survive, about another 20% will end up in institutional care who weren't in that before the stroke.