survive
Verb
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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"subtypes:
- hold up, hold water, stand up - resist or withstand wear, criticism, etc.
- perennate - survive from season to season, of plants
- live out - live out one's life; live to the end
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Continue in existence after (an adversity, etc.) (synset 202626004)
"He survived the cancer against all odds"
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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"
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Live longer than (synset 202625819)
"She outlived her husband by many years"
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