| 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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