What is another word for survive?
Synonyms for survive
sərˈvaɪvsur·vive
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Wiktionary
surviveverb
To live longer than, to outlive.
Synonyms:
outliveAntonyms:
predecease
English Synonyms and Antonyms
survive
Synonyms:
be born, be immortal, begin, come into being, come to life, exist, flourish, grow, live, rise again, rise from the deadAntonyms:
cease, decease, decline, depart, die, expire, fade, perish, wither
Princeton's WordNet
survive, last, live, live on, go, endure, hold up, hold outverb
continue to live through hardship or adversity
"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?"
Synonyms:
subsist, perish, give way, hold out, run, endure, lead, experience, give out, conk out, operate, travel, hold, function, die, sustain, stretch forth, last, go away, weather, prevail, go, brave out, rifle, defy, persist, run low, stick up, plump, digest, stomach, hold water, break, pass away, drop dead, withstand, stretch out, tolerate, abide, blend in, run short, get going, locomote, pull through, be, come through, live, cash in one's chips, kick the bucket, blend, stick out, brook, stand up, bear, fit, suffer, pull round, outlast, populate, inhabit, belong, dwell, give-up the ghost, go bad, get, stand, expire, become, exist, live on, croak, move, choke, pop off, sound, make it, wear, extend, start, depart, decease, outlive, pass, proceed, break down, exit, conk, fail, buy the farm, detain, hold up, put out, know, brave, put up, exsert, snuff it, resist, support, die hard, stand firm, work, delaysurvive, pull through, pull round, come through, make itverb
continue in existence after (an adversity, etc.)
"He survived the cancer against all odds"
Synonyms:
go, exist, arrive, live, hold out, go far, last, bring through, break through, get through, hold up, subsist, deliver the goods, live on, bring home the bacon, carry through, come through, pull round, outlive, pull through, outlast, endure, pass, win, get in, make it, save, succeedexist, survive, live, subsistverb
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"
Synonyms:
go, exist, live, hold out, populate, be, experience, hold up, outlive, dwell, live on, come through, pull round, pull through, outlast, endure, subsist, inhabit, know, make it, lastoutlive, outlast, surviveverb
live longer than
"She outlived her husband by many years"
Synonyms:
hold out, live on, outlive, hold up, exist, subsist, endure, come through, make it, outlast, live, go, pull round, last, pull through
Dictionary of English Synonymes
surviveverb
Synonyms:
remain alive, continue to live, live onsurviveverb
Synonyms:
outlive, live longer than
Words popularity by usage frequency
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#19 | be | |
#77 | get | |
#123 | go | |
#125 | work | |
#126 | last | |
#148 | support | |
#201 | know | |
#220 | travel | |
#400 | save | |
#461 | live | |
#474 | start | |
#566 | experience | |
#652 | become | |
#672 | run | |
#771 | weather | |
#803 | sound | |
#853 | function | |
#1142 | move | |
#1176 | lead | |
#1240 | win | |
#1275 | hold | |
#1493 | pass | |
#1618 | break | |
#1763 | die | |
#1778 | stand | |
#1805 | begin | |
#1931 | fit | |
#2490 | bear | |
#2636 | fail | |
#2664 | wear | |
#2923 | grow | |
#3042 | exist | |
#3227 | exit | |
#3446 | delay | |
#3943 | operate | |
#4532 | extend | |
#4562 | digest | |
#4736 | survival | |
#5474 | arrive | |
#5628 | proceed | |
#6322 | blend | |
#6558 | belong | |
#6848 | suffer | |
#7117 | survive | |
#7561 | succeed | |
#7838 | stomach | |
#8863 | brook | |
#9772 | brave | |
#9957 | resist | |
#10008 | rifle | |
#10105 | depart | |
#11256 | sustain | |
#11551 | surviving | |
#12106 | abide | |
#12849 | plump | |
#12853 | expire | |
#17449 | dwell | |
#17822 | prevail | |
#17899 | endure | |
#17963 | tolerate | |
#18561 | persist | |
#19121 | withstand | |
#21204 | choke | |
#23713 | flourish | |
#27826 | perish | |
#29724 | populate | |
#29907 | defy | |
#30748 | inhabit | |
#40155 | detain | |
#71204 | outlast | |
#73790 | croak | |
#78839 | subsist | |
#91203 | outlive | |
#92888 | decease | |
#166458 | conk |
How to use survive in a sentence?
It's not an easy situation, because at the moment, there's no light at the end of the tunnel, i know many of my tenants. I don't know if they can survive.
I feel lucky, as writing and selling books gives me an additional income stream. If not for that, I would’ve stayed stuck in the same wage loop, that’s why I was able to survive.
Everybody is surprised that I've lasted for more than two months. The quality of living is so poor that many expats give up almost immediately, you need to have a thick skin to survive.
After all of these treatments he still needed 80 to 100% oxygen at rest, at that point, we determined that the only way he would survive was if he underwent a double lung transplant.
Fame to be sweet must resound in the ears of those we love, in the atmosphere of the land that will guard our ashes. Fame should hover over our tomb to warm with its heat the chill of death, so that we may not be completely reduced to nothingness, that something of us may survive! (Noli Me Tangere)
Translations for survive
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- перажываць, перажыцьBelarusian
- sobreviureCatalan, Valencian
- přežívat, přežítCzech
- overleveDanish
- überlebenGerman
- επιβιώνω, επιζώ, γλιτώνωGreek
- postviviEsperanto
- sobrevivirSpanish
- selviytyä, jäädä eloon, jäädä henkiinFinnish
- survivreFrench
- tar slán, tarIrish
- sobrevivirGalician
- जीवित रहने केHindi
- tovább él, életben marad, túlélHungarian
- superviverInterlingua
- sopravvivereItalian
- 生き抜く, 生き残ります, 生き残るJapanese
- 살아남 다Korean
- supersto, superstitem sum, supersum, reliquus sum, supestitem sum, vitam supero, vivoLatin
- overleveNorwegian
- overlevenDutch
- leve lenger enn, overleveNorwegian
- przeżyć, przeżywaćPolish
- sobreviverPortuguese
- supraviețuiRomanian
- выжить, переживать, пережить, остаться в живых, оставаться в живых, выживатьRussian
- preživeti, преживети, опстати, opstatiSerbo-Croatian
- prežívať, prežiťSlovak
- obstati, preživetiSlovene
- överlevaSwedish
- hayatta kalmakTurkish
- переживати, пережитиUkrainian
- زندہ رہناUrdu
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