survive

survive is on the Academic Word List.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA ^(key): /səˈvaɪv/ or /səˈvʌɪv/
• (US) IPA ^(key): /sɚˈvaɪv/

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Verb

Plain form survive

Third-person singular survives

Past tense survived

Past participle survived

Present participle surviving

1. (transitive & intransitive) If you survive something, you experience it and you did not die.

   They survived the war but died two years later.

   Some of the factory's equipment from 1827 still survives.

   I went to a lecture on surviving in dangerous situations.

   These last few months have been hard, but we'll survive.

Related words

• survival
• survivor