survive

Verb
  1. Continue to live and avoid dying (synset 202624202)
    "We went without water and food for 3 days"; "These superstitions survive in the backwaters of America"; "The race car driver lived through several very serious accidents"; "how long can a person last without food and water?"; "One crash victim died, the other lived"
    entail: be, live - have life, be alive
    subtypes:
    same as: endure, go, hold out, hold up, last, live, live on
    verb group:
  2. Continue in existence after (an adversity, etc.) (synset 202626004)
    "He survived the cancer against all odds"
    entail: convalesce, recover, recuperate - get over an illness or shock
    is a type of: defeat, get the better of, overcome - win a victory over
    same as: come through, make it, pull round, pull through
  3. Support oneself (synset 202622766)
    "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"
    subtypes:
    same as: exist, live, subsist
    verb group: endure, go, hold out, hold up, last, live, live on, survive - continue to live and avoid dying
  4. Live longer than (synset 202625819)
    "She outlived her husband by many years"
    entail: be, live - have life, be alive
    same as: outlast, outlive

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