English

Detailed Synonyms for survive in English

survive:

to survive verb (survives, survived, surviving)

  1. to survive
    to survive; to outlive
    • survive verb (survives, survived, surviving)
    • outlive verb (outlives, outlived, outliving)
  2. to survive
    – support oneself 1
    to live; to exist; to survive; subsist
    – support oneself 1
    • live verb (lives, lived, living)
      • Can you live on $2000 a month in New York City?1
    • exist verb (exists, existed, existing)
      • he could barely exist on such a low wage1
    • survive verb (survives, survived, surviving)
    • subsist verb
      • Many people in the world have to subsist on $1 a day1
  3. to survive
    – continue to live through hardship or adversity 1
    to live; to go; to last; to endure; to survive; to hold up; to hold out; to live on
    – continue to live through hardship or adversity 1
    • live verb (lives, lived, living)
      • The race car driver lived through several very serious accidents1
    • go verb (goes, went, going)
      • We went without water and food for 3 days1
    • last verb (lasts, lasted, lasting)
      • how long can a person last without food and water?1
    • endure verb (endures, endured, enduring)
    • survive verb (survives, survived, surviving)
      • These superstitions survive in the backwaters of America1
    • hold up verb (holds up, held up, holding up)
    • hold out verb (holds out, held out, holding out)
    • live on verb (lives on, lived on, living on)
  4. to survive
    – live longer than 1
    to survive; to outlive; outlast
    – live longer than 1
    • survive verb (survives, survived, surviving)
    • outlive verb (outlives, outlived, outliving)
      • She outlived her husband by many years1
    • outlast verb
  5. to survive
    – continue in existence after (an adversity, etc.) 1
    to survive; to come through; to pull through; make it; pull round
    – continue in existence after (an adversity, etc.) 1
    • survive verb (survives, survived, surviving)
      • He survived the cancer against all odds1
    • come through verb (comes through, came through, coming through)
    • pull through verb (pulls through, pulled through, pulling through)
    • make it verb
    • pull round verb

Conjugations for survive:

present
  1. survive
  2. survive
  3. survives
  4. survive
  5. survive
  6. survive
simple past
  1. survived
  2. survived
  3. survived
  4. survived
  5. survived
  6. survived
present perfect
  1. have survived
  2. have survived
  3. has survived
  4. have survived
  5. have survived
  6. have survived
past continuous
  1. was surviving
  2. were surviving
  3. was surviving
  4. were surviving
  5. were surviving
  6. were surviving
future
  1. shall survive
  2. will survive
  3. will survive
  4. shall survive
  5. will survive
  6. will survive
continuous present
  1. am surviving
  2. are surviving
  3. is surviving
  4. are surviving
  5. are surviving
  6. are surviving
subjunctive
  1. be survived
  2. be survived
  3. be survived
  4. be survived
  5. be survived
  6. be survived
diverse
  1. survive!
  2. let's survive!
  3. survived
  4. surviving
1. I, 2. you, 3. he/she/it, 4. we, 5. you, 6. they

survive

  1. survive

Related Words for "survive":

  • surviving, survivable

Alternate Synonyms for "survive":


Antonyms for "survive":


Related Definitions for "survive":

  1. support oneself1
  2. continue to live through hardship or adversity1
    • These superstitions survive in the backwaters of America1
  3. live longer than1
  4. continue in existence after (an adversity, etc.)1
    • He survived the cancer against all odds1

Related Synonyms for survive