Survive

Definition: Survive

Survive

Verb

1. Continue to live; endure or last; "We went without water and food for 3 days"; "The legend of Elvis lives on"; "These superstitions survive in the backwaters of America"; "The racecar driver lived through several very serious accidents".

2. Continue in existence after (an adversity, etc.); "He survived the cancer against all odds".

3. 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".

4. Live longer than; "She outlived her husband by many years".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "survive" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

Synonyms: Survive

Diuturnity

Outlast, outlive; survive; live to fight again.

Permanence

Verb: let alone, let be, let it be; persist, remain, stay, tarry, rest; stet; hold, hold on; last, endure, bide, abide, aby, dwell, maintain, keep; stand, stand still, stand fast; subsist, live, outlive, survive; hold one's ground, keep one's ground, hold one's footing, keep one's footing; hold good.

Remainder

Verb: remain; be left; Adjective: exceed, survive; leave.

Restoration

Verb: return to the original state; recover, rally, revive; come come to, come round, come to oneself; pull through, weather the storm, be oneself again; get well,get round, get the better of, get over, get about; rise from one's ashes, rise from the grave; survive; (outlive); resume, reappear; come to, come to life again; live again, rise again.

Crosswords: Survive

Throughout human history, we have been dependent on machines to survive. Fate, it seems, is not without a sense of irony (The Matrix; writing credit: Andy Wachowski and Larry Wachowski.)

Damaged people are dangerous; they know they can survive. (Damage; writing credit: David Hare.)

They had to, in order to survive. (The Shining; writing credit: Stanley Kubrick)

We're not meant to survive. (Dinosaur; writing credit: Walon Green; Thom Enriquez)

I should have died many times, Captain, but I continue to survive somehow (The Enemy Below; writing credit: Wendell Mayes. Based on the novel by D.A. Rayner.)

A country boy can survive (A Country Boy Can Survive (Y2K Verison); performing artist: Chad Brock)

Doin' everything yo just to survive Above the law, I take our stand (Get Ready For This; performing artist: 2 Unlimited)

I can't survive (Thank God I Found You; performing artist: 98 Degrees)

Just tryin' to survive (Amazing; performing artist: Aerosmith)

You'll survive (I'm Outta Love; performing artist: Anastacia; writing credit: Anastacia Newkirk, Sam Watters, Louis Biancaniello)

You can survive on charm for about 5 minutes. After that, you'd better know something! (references; author: unknown)

A Purple Heart just proves that you were smart enough to think of a plan, stupid enough to try it, and lucky enough to survive. (references; author: unknown)

If you woke up this morning with more health than illness, you are more blessed than the million who will not survive this week. (references; author: unknown)

How to Survive a Marriage (1974)

Five Survive (1971)

How to Survive a Broken Heart (1990)

Anything to Survive (1990)

Only the Strong Survive (1988)

I Will Survive (performing artist: Gloria Gaynor)

A Country Boy Can Survive (performing artist: Hank Williams Jr.)

Only the Strong Survive (performing artist: Jerry Butler)

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Books

• Confessions of a Record Producer, 2 Ed: How to Survive the Scams and Shams of the Music Business (reference)

• Conquer the Crash: You Can Survive and Prosper in a Deflationary Depression (reference)

• Elder Rage, or Take My Father... Please!: How to Survive Caring for Aging Parents (reference)

• How to Survive and Prosper As an Artist: Selling Yourself Without Selling Your Soul (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• D.I.Y. Or Die: How to Survive as an Independent Artist (reference)

• Angel Sanctuary: Can Love Survive the Wrath of Heaven? (reference)

• How to Survive Your Wedding W/O Losin (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• 2 Survive (reference)

• I Will Survive [CD5 Single] [CD-SINGLE] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Ballz: RUDE Survive (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

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These spores can live for many years enabling the bacteria to survive in a dormant state. Credit: CDC.

Abandoned shacks that might have helped some forlorn souls survive the winter. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

Brown algae on a temperate Carolina reef can survive a wide temperature range. Lobophora. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP).

A typical invertebrate grouping found on the interior roof of the pipes consisting primarily of bryozoa, tunicates and sponges over the top of oyster shells. Oysters could not survive long once the other fouling organisms covered them over. You can see the tan colonies of erect bryozoa, Reteporellina sp. These colonies disappeared after strong storm surges. Credit: The Coral Kingdom.

A now uncommon and romantic building type, the Beebe Windmill provided mechanization to the grinding of grain. This rare survivor teaches us about the evolution of industrial technologies and the ingenuity of early American craftsman who fashioned the moving parts out of the most readily available material at hand, wood. HABS and HAER documentation provides information for the care and maintenance of structures for which the original drawings typically do not survive. The formats of HAER documentation for this windmill include a written history, photographs, and measured drawings. The selected drawings and photographs shown here demonstrate how the nformation in each format can supplement the other. The photographs record information as the camera sees it in a one-point perspective. The drawings illustrate the grain mill and clarify how its parts fit together, what dimensions they are, and how they interact to grind the grain. West elevation. Photograph by Jet Lowe, 1978. (Reproduction Number: HAER, NY,52-BRIG,4-1). Credit: Library of Congress.

Bow-on view of vessel in dry dock in 1985, as seen from vessel centerline. Photograph by Jet Lowe, May/October 1985. (Reproduction Number: HAER, WASH,17-SEAT,10-16) Historic ships are among the most difficult objects to preserve and few vessels survive long enough to be considered historic. Those that do require expensive maintenance to be operational. The 1897 schooner Wawona was put into a floating dry dock in 1985 to allow necessary periodic repairs to the wooden hull. While the hull was accessible, HAER measured and mapped the shape of the hull in a series of topographic drawings, a process called "lines-lifting." This lumber schooner was the first project of HAER's ongoing maritime program. (See HABS/HAER, National Park Service for more history.). Credit: Library of Congress.

Those road casualties who survive often need continued care. / UN/WHO photo. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Dr. Matsutani learned Inupiat and how to survive the arctic winter. / Portfolio Associates Inc. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

"Trenton dragging along the reefs" Artwork by Rear Admiral Lewis A. Kimberly, contained in his personal journal of the Apia Hurricane. It shows USS Trenton during the height of the storm, with her anchors dragging as she is pushed deeper into Apia Harbor. Note that she is shown with steam up. Water entering through her low hause pipes (visible at her bow) ultimately put out her fires, greatly reducing her ability to survive the wind and waves. Credit: NAVY.

I can tolerate the vertical motion and I survive the lateral action, but when the two ... Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

If you could separate causes from results, if you could know that Paine, Marx, Jefferson, Lenin, were results, not causes, you might survive.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Mosquitoes cannot survive in low humidity. (references)

For children who survive, treatment is symptomatic. (references)

Babies who survive BPD grow more slowly than normal. (references)

Business

China’s farm produce lacks the competitive power necessary to survive in the global market. (references)

They believe that only such arrangements will permit them to survive through the current transition. (references)

ICPs that hope to survive in a mobile world will require assistance to make a speedy transition to wireless. (references)

Children

Papua New Guinea

More than 60 of every 1,000 children born do not survive their first year. (references)

Spain

These children cannot legally work; as a result, many survive through petty crime. (references)

Morocco

Typically, their families support persons with disabilities; some survive by begging. (references)

Civil Liberties

Zimbabwe

Several days before the explosion, Minister Moyo told Sandra Nyaira, a political reporter for the Daily News, that "The Daily News is not going to survive as long as I am alive. (references)

Economic History

Nepal

Certain animistic practices of old indigenous religions survive. (references)

Chad

In the Saharan region, only camels and a few hardy goats can survive. (references)

Human Rights

Nigeria

Poor inmates often relied on handouts from others to survive. (references)

Iran

Many aspects of the prerevolutionary judicial system survive in the civil and criminal courts. (references)

Honduras

Prisoners were allowed visits and in many cases relied on outside help to survive, as the prison system could not provide adequate or sufficient food. (references)

Indigenous People

Venezuela

In addition, many Warao no longer want, or no longer possess, the knowledge required to survive in their traditional manner. (references)

Sweden

As a result of such education, northern Sami dialects have enjoyed a renaissance; however, Sami dialects in the southern portions of traditional Sami lands may have too few native speakers to survive as living languages. (references)

Political Economy

Afghanistan

The country was dependent on international assistance, and large portions of the population required food aid to survive. (references)

Trade

Russia

Since 1995, the total number of banks has declined from approximately 2,600 to 1,320; of these, 300 barely survive. (references)

Ecuador

However, both external and internal factors created a deep economic crisis by the end of the 1990s. The GDP per capita dropped to the level of the 1960s. Bank operations reduced dramatically so that of the 42 banks existing before the collapse, just 22 managed to survive in private hands. (references)

Women

Switzerland

Since the man is the primary wage earner in most marriages, when the income is too low to support both parties, it is usually the wife (and children) who are forced to survive on public assistance. (references)

Worker Rights

Congo

Most workers rely on extended family and informal economic activity to survive. (references)

Ethiopia

Consequently most families must have at least two wage earners to survive, which is one of the reasons children leave school early. (references)

Mozambique

Neither minimum wage is considered sufficient to provide a decent standard of living for an average worker and family, and many workers must turn to a second job, if available, maintain their own gardens, or depend on the income of other family members to survive. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expression using "survive": survive on. Additional references.

Afrikaans

deurmaak (experience, go through, live, live through, live to see), belewe (experience, go through, live, live through, live to see), beleef (courteous, experience, go through, live, live through, live to see, polite, well-mannered). (various references)

Albanian

vazhdoj të ekzistoj, mbijetoj (live, live out), mbetem gjallë (live out, live through). (various references)

Arabic 

‏نجا من (be out, outrun, pull out), ‏بقي حيا, ‏بقي على قيد الحياة. (various references)

Bulgarian 

съхранявам се, оцелявам, запазвам се (keep, last, persist, stand, stick, stick on), живея повече от (outlast), преживявам (emote, experience, have, live through, meet with, outlive, outwear, overlive, pass through, rub along, rub on, see, subsist, undergo). (various references)

Chinese 

生存 (subsistence, survival, Survived, surviving), 存 (deposit, exist, keep, store). (various references)

Czech

přežít (come through, live down, live out, live through, outlast, outlive, overlive). (various references)

Danish

gennemgå (abide, bear, endure, experience, live through, put up with, suffer). (various references)

Dutch

doormaken (experience, go through, live through, live to see), doorleven (experience, live through), beleven (experience, go through, live through, live to see). (various references)

Esperanto

travivi (experience, live through). (various references)

Farsi 

گذراندن (Fare, Outwear, While), سپری کردن (While), زنده ماندن , طی کردن برزیستن , بیشترزنده بودن از (Outlast, Outlive), باقی بودن . (various references)

Finnish

säilyä hengissä (escape alive), talvehtia (spend the winter, winter), jäädä henkiin, jäädä eloon. (various references)

French

survivre (to survive). (various references)

German

überleben (last, live out, live through, outlast, outlive, see out, survival, to outlive, to survive, viability). (various references)

Greek 

επιζώ (live through, outlast, outlive). (various references)

Hebrew 

לשרוד (be left, remain), לחיות (be alive, exist, live), להוסיף להתקים, להשאר בחיים, להנצל (be rescued, be saved, escape). (various references)

Hungarian

túlél (live down, live through, outlast, outlive, overlive, to live down, to live out, to live through, to outlive, to survive), fennmarad (subsist, to endure, to hold up, to keep up, to last, to maintain an existence, to subsist). (various references)

Indonesian

menyelamatkan nyawa. (various references)

Italian

sopravvivere (outlive, to survive). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

残存 (remain). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ざんぞん (remain, remaining, survival), ざんそん (remain). (various references)

Korean 

살아나십시요. (various references)

Manx

ve er mayrn, cummal magh (endure, hold off, hold out, maintain). (various references)

Maya

kuxkiins bah (to survive). (various references)

Pig Latin

urvivesay.(various references)

Polish

przeżyć (experience, live through). (various references)

Portuguese

sobreviver (come through, keep body and soul together, live out, live through, outlive, pull through, stay alive). (various references)

Romanian

supravieţui (live, live through), dãinui (endure, keep, last, linger, live). (various references)

Romany

nakhyaràv (to survive). (various references)

Russian 

уцелеть, выжить (outlive, overlive), выживать (get through, supplant), пережить (live out, live through, outlast, outlive, overlive). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

preživeti (live out, live through, outlive, overlive), opstati, nadživeti (outlast, outlive, overlive). (various references)

Spanish

sobrevivir a (outlive), sobrevivir (come through, keep alive, live in, live out, outlast, outlive, overlive, weather), salvarse (pull through, redeem). (various references)

Swedish

överleva (outlast, outlive). (various references)

Turkish

sağ kalmak, yadigâr kalmak, kalmak (abide, be left, be left over, bed, come to, continue, devolve, fail, flunk, keep, keep to, leave, put up, refuge, remain, rest with, room, sleep, stand, stay, stop, Tarry, wait), hayatta kalmak (keep alive, live), geriye kalmak (remain), göğüs germek (brave, breast, face, resist, square up, square up to, stand, stand out against, stand up to, stick up to), dayanmak (abut, be based on, be predicated on, bear up, bear up against, bear with, Brook, consist, endure, found, go on, ground, hang, hang on, hinge on, hold, hold on, hold one's own, hold out, hold up, last, lean, lean upon, offer resistance, osculate, put up with, rely on, rely upon, repose, repose on, resist, rest, rest against, root in, stand, stand on, stand the racket, stand up, stand upon, stay, stick, stick it, stick out, sweat out, take, take it, thole, tolerate, trace, wear, withstand), daha uzun yaşamak (outlast, outlive). (various references)

Ukrainian

вижити (live out, outlive, overlive, pull through), зберігатися (keep, last, wear), переживати (emote, experience, feel, pass through, prove). (various references)

Welsh

goroesi (outlive). (various references)

adviverent, adviveret, revixit, superabat, superabit, superabunt, superamus, superant, superantur, superare, superaretur, superari, superasti, superastis, superat, superata, superatus, superaverat, superaverint, superaverunt, superavit, superent, supererant, supererat, superes, superesse, superessent, superest, superet, superfuerit, superfuit, supersit, supersunt, supervivere, supervixerit, victa, victi, victorum, victos, victum, victus, vivam, vivamus, vivant, vivas, vivat, vivatis, vive, vivebam, vivemus, vivendo, vivendum, vivens, vivent, vivente, viventem, viventes, viventi, viventibus, viventis, viventium, vivere, viveremus, viverent, viveret, viveretis, vives, vivet, vivetis, vivi, vivimus, vivis, vivit, vivite, vivitis, vivitur, vivo, vivunt, vixerat, vixerimus, vixerit, vixeritis, vixero, vixerunt, vixit, vixitque. (various references)

belifan, gedygan. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "survive": survived, surviver, survivers, survives. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Survive" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Muraviev, Muravyev, Saraiva, servive, Sturzvage, suivie, surive, survife, survile, survivre, suvive. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: vivers.

-2 letters: rives, sieur, siver, viers, vires, virus.

-3 letters: ires, reis, revs, rise, rive, rues, ruse, sire, suer, sure, user, vier, vies, vise, vive.

-4 letters: ers, ire, rei, res, rev, rue, sei, ser, sir, sri, sue, use, vie, vis.

-5 letters: er, es, is, re, si, us.

+1 letter: survived, surviver, survives.

+2 letters: redivivus, revulsive, survivers.

+3 letters: subversive, survivable, survivance, uvarovites.

+4 letters: overobvious, sempervivum, subversives, survivances.

+5 letters: parvoviruses, sempervivums, subversively.