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English verb: survive | |||
| 1. | survive (stative) continue to live through hardship or adversity | ||
| Samples | 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?. | ||
| Examples | The business is going to survive | ||
| Synonyms | endure, go, hold out, hold up, last, live, live on | ||
| Pattern of use | Something ----s. Somebody ----s. Somebody ----s something | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | hold up, hold water, live out, perennate, stand up | ||
| Entail | be, live | ||
| Verb group | be, exist, live, live, subsist, survive | ||
| 2. | survive (stative) continue in existence after (an adversity, etc.) | ||
| Samples | He survived the cancer against all odds. | ||
| Synonyms | come through, make it, pull round, pull through | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s. Somebody ----s something | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | defeat, get the better of, overcome | ||
| Entail | convalesce, recover, recuperate | ||
| Antonyms | succumb, yield | ||
| 3. | survive (stative) support oneself | ||
| Samples | 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. | ||
| Synonyms | exist, live, subsist | ||
| Pattern of use | Something ----s. Somebody ----s. Somebody ----s on something. Somebody ----s PP | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | breathe, drift, freewheel | ||
| Verb group | endure, go, hold out, hold up, last, live, live on, survive | ||
| 4. | survive (stative) live longer than | ||
| Samples | She outlived her husband by many years. | ||
| Synonyms | outlast, outlive | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something. Somebody ----s somebody. Something ----s somebody. Something ----s something | ||
| Entail | be, live | ||
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