survive : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: survive	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for survive
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
survive v 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?" Synonym(s): survive, last, live, live on, go, endure, hold up, hold out continue in existence after (an adversity, etc.); "He survived the cancer against all odds" Synonym(s): survive, pull through, pull round, come through, make it Antonym(s): succumb, yield 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" Synonym(s): exist, survive, live, subsist live longer than; "She outlived her husband by many years" Synonym(s): outlive, outlast, survive
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Survive \Survive"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Survived}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Surviving}.] [F. survivre, L. supervivere; super over + vivere to live. See {Super-}, and {Victuals}.] To live beyond the life or existence of; to live longer than; to outlive; to outlast; as, to survive* a person or an event. --Cowper. I'll assure her of Her widowhood, be it that she survive me, In all my lands and leases whatsoever. --Shak.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Survive \Sur*vive"\, v. i. To remain alive; to continue to live. Thy pleasure, Which, when no other enemy survives, Still conquers all the conquerors. --Sir J. Denham. Alike are life and death, When life in death survives. --Longfellow.