VERB | stative | survive, last, live, live on, go, endure, hold up, hold out | continue to live through hardship or adversity |
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stative | survive, pull through, pull round, come through, make it | continue in existence after (an adversity, etc.) | |
stative | survive, exist, live, subsist | support oneself | |
stative | survive, outlive, outlast | live longer than |
Sounds | servay'v | |
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Rhymes | alive ... thrive: 23 rhymes with ayv... |
Meaning | Continue to live through hardship or adversity. | |
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Pattern | Something ----s; Somebody ----s; Somebody ----s something | |
Model | The business is going to survive | |
Example | "These superstitions survive in the backwaters of America" | |
Synonyms | last, live, live on, go, endure, hold up, hold out | |
Entails | be, live | Have life, be alive |
Narrower | live out | Live out one's life |
perennate | survive from season to season, of plants | |
stand up, hold up, hold water | resist or withstand wear, criticism, etc. | |
Similar to | be, live | Have life, be alive |
exist, survive, live, subsist | support oneself | |
Spanish | durar, perdurar, persistir, sobrevivir, vivir | |
Catalan | durar, perdurar, persistir, sobreviure, viure | |
Nouns | survival | a state of surviving |
Meaning | Continue in existence after (an adversity, etc.). | |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something | |
Example | "He survived the cancer against all odds" | |
Synonyms | pull through, pull round, come through, make it | |
Entails | recuperate, recover, convalesce | get over an illness or shock |
Broader | get the better of, overcome, defeat | win a victory over |
Opposite | succumb, yield | Be fatally overwhelmed |
Spanish | sobrevivir, superar | |
Catalan | sobreviure, superar | |
Nouns | survival | a state of surviving |
survivor | one who lives through affliction |
Meaning | support oneself. | |
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Pattern | Something ----s; Somebody ----s; Somebody ----s on something; Somebody ----s PP | |
Synonyms | exist, live, subsist | |
Narrower | breathe | Be alive |
freewheel, drift | Live unhurriedly, irresponsibly, or freely | |
Similar to | survive, last, live, live on, go, endure, hold up, hold out | Continue to live through hardship or adversity |
Spanish | existir, morar, persistir, sobrevivir, subsistir, vivir | |
Catalan | existir, persistir, sobreviure, subsistir, viure | |
Nouns | survival | a state of surviving |
Meaning | Live longer than. | |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody; Something ----s somebody; Something ----s something | |
Synonyms | outlive, outlast | |
Entails | be, live | Have life, be alive |
Spanish | sobrevivir | |
Catalan | sobreviure | |
Nouns | survivor | one who outlives another |
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