vverb.stativecontinue to live and avoid dyingSynset:endure go hold out hold up last live live on survive
Examples:- We went without water and food for 3 days
- These superstitions survive in the backwaters of America
- The race car driver lived through several very serious accidents
- how long can a person last without food and water?" "One crash victim died, the other lived
Derivationally Related Form:endurancesurvival
Inherited Hypernyms:survive
Direct Hyponyms:hold uphold waterlive outperennatestand up
Entailment:be live
Full Troponyms:live outperennatestand up
Sentence Frame:Somebody ---s something | Something ---s | Somebody ---s | The business is going to --- (apply to: live, hold out, live on, survive, last, hold up)
vverb.stativecontinue in existence after (an adversity, etc.)Synset:come through make it pull round pull through survive
Examples:- He survived the cancer against all odds
Antonyms:succumb
Derivationally Related Form:survivorsurvival
Hypernyms:defeat get the better of overcome
Inherited Hypernyms:surviveget the better of
Entailment:convalesce recover recuperate
Sentence Frame:Somebody ---s | Somebody ---s something (apply to: survive) | The business is going to --- (apply to: make it, come through, pull through)
vverb.stativesupport oneselfSynset:exist live subsist survive
Examples:- 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
Derivationally Related Form:subsistencesurvivalsubsister
Inherited Hypernyms:exist
Direct Hyponyms:breathedriftfreewheel
Full Troponyms:breathefreewheel
Sentence Frame:Something ---s | Somebody ---s | Somebody ---s on something | Somebody ---s PP
vverb.stativelive longer thanSynset:outlast outlive survive
Examples:- She outlived her husband by many years
Derivationally Related Form:survivor
Inherited Hypernyms:outlive
Entailment:be live
Sentence Frame:Somebody ---s something | Somebody ---s somebody | Something ---s somebody | Something ---s something
adj satadj.allstill in existenceSynset:living
Examples:- the Wollemi pine found in Australia is a surviving specimen of a conifer thought to have been long extinct and therefore known as a living fossil
- the only surviving frontier blockhouse in Pennsylvania
Antonyms:extinct
Inherited Hypernyms:surviving
Similar to:extant