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survive
verb
1 survive
Continue to live and avoid dying:
— These superstitions survive in the backwaters of America.
synonyms: endure, go, hold out, hold up, last, live, live on.
Roget 141:
let alone,
let be,
let it be;
persist,
remain,
stay,
tarry,
rest;
stet
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hold,
hold on;
last,
endure,
bide,
abide,
aby†,
dwell,
maintain,
keep;
stand,
stand still,
stand fast;
subsist,
live,
outlive,
survive;
hold one's ground,
keep one's ground,
hold one's footing,
keep one's footing;
hold good.
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Roget 40:
remain;
be left
etc.
adj.;
exceed,
survive;
leave.
Roget 110:
last,
endure,
stand,
remain,
abide,
continue,
brave a thousand years.
tarry
etc.
(be late)
133;
drag on,
drag its slow length along,
drag a lengthening chain;
protract,
prolong;
spin out,
eke out,
draw out,
lengthen out;
temporize;
gain time,
make time,
talk against time.
outlast,
outlive;
survive;
live to fight again.
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Dutch: handhaven, leven, overblijven, overleven, trotseren, voortbestaan, voortduren, voortleven
2 survive
Continue in existence after (an adversity, etc.):
— He survived the cancer against all odds.
synonyms: come through, make it, pull round, pull through.
Roget 660:
return to the original state;
recover,
rally,
revive;
come come to,
come round,
come to oneself;
pull through,
weather the storm,
be oneself again;
get well,
get round,
get the better of,
get over,
get about;
rise from one's ashes,
rise from the grave;
survive
etc.
(outlive)
110;
resume,
reappear;
come to,
come to life again;
live again,
rise again.
heal,
skin over,
cicatrize;
right itself.
restore,
put back,
place in statu quo [Lat.];
reinstate,
replace,
reseat,
rehabilitate,
reestablish,
reestate†,
reinstall.
reconstruct,
rebuild,
reorganize,
reconstitute;
reconvert;
renew,
renovate;
regenerate;
rejuvenate.
redeem,
reclaim,
recover,
retrieve;
rescue
etc.
(deliver)
672.
redress,
recure†;
cure,
heal,
remedy,
doctor,
physic,
medicate;
break of;
bring round,
set on one's legs.
resuscitate,
revive,
reanimate,
revivify,
recall to life;
reproduce
etc.
163;
warm up;
reinvigorate,
refresh
etc.
689.
make whole,
redintegrate†;
recoup
etc.
790;
make good,
make all square;
rectify,
correct;
put right,
put to rights,
set right,
set to rights,
set straight;
set up;
put in order
etc.
(arrange)
60;
refit,
recruit;
fill up,
fill up the ranks;
reinforce.
repair;
put in repair,
remanufacture,
put in thorough repair,
put in complete repair;
retouch,
refashion,
botch†,
vamp,
tinker,
cobble;
do up,
patch up,
touch up,
plaster up,
vamp up;
darn,
finedraw†,
heelpiece†;
stop a gap,
stanch,
staunch,
caulk,
calk,
careen,
splice,
bind up wounds.
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Dutch: overleven
3 survive
4 survive
Live longer than.
synonyms: outlast, outlive.
Dutch: langer duren dan, overleven
Moby thesaurus: abide, be left, be spared, bide, bounce back, carry on, carry through, cheat death, come around, come back, come round, come through, come to, come up smiling, continue, continue to be, cope, defeat time, defy time, dwell, eke out, endure, exist, extend, get about, get along, get by, get on, get over, get well, go on, go on with, hang in, hang on, hang tough, hold, hold on, hold out, keep, keep afloat, keep alive, keep at it, keep on, last, last long, last out, live, live down, live on, live through, maintain, make a comeback, make ends meet, make it, make out, manage, never say die, outlast, outlive, outwear, perdure, perennate, persevere, persist, prevail, pull round, pull through, rally, recover, remain, rest, revive, ride out, run, run on, scrape along, see it through, stand, stay, stay on, stick it out, stick to it, subsist, support life, sustain, tarry, tide over, wear, wear well, weather the storm ... show more.
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