Survive - Definition

v 1: 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?" [syn: survive,
last, live, live on, go, endure, hold up, hold
out]
2: continue in existence after (an adversity, etc.); "He
survived the cancer against all odds" [syn: survive, pull
through, pull round, come through, make it] [ant:
succumb, yield]
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" [syn:
exist, survive, live, subsist]
4: live longer than; "She outlived her husband by many years"
[syn: outlive, outlast, survive]