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Words related to survive

Related / Similar Words: exist, live, subsist, last, live on, go, endure, hold up, hold out, outlive, outlast, pull through, pull round, come through, make it

Definition:

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";

continue to live; endure or last; "We went without water and food for 3 days"; "These superstitions survive in the backwaters of America"; "The racecar driver lived through several very serious accidents";

live longer than; "She outlived her husband by many years";

continue in existence after (an adversity, etc.); "He survived the cancer against all odds";

Hyponyms: breathe, indwell, freewheel, drift, stand up, hold up, hold water, perennate, live out

Grouped Verbs: last, live, live on, go, endure, hold up, hold out, be, exist, subsist

Entailments: be, live, recuperate, recover, convalesce

Derivational Morphology: survivor, subsister, subsistence, survival, endurance

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