[ UK /səvˈa‍ɪv/ ]
[ US /sɝˈvaɪv/ ]
VERB
  1. live longer than
    She outlived her husband by many years
  2. 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
  3. 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
  4. continue in existence after (an adversity, etc.)
    He survived the cancer against all odds
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How To Use survive In A Sentence

  • 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 residents are mostly impoverished families who survive by collecting recyclable garbage.
  • 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.
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