survive
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(verb) continue to live, endure or last; "We went without water and food for 3 days"; "The legend of Elvis lives on"; "These superstitions survive in the backwaters of America" |
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Synonyms: endure, go, hold out, hold up, last, live, live on |
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Related Words: hold up, live out, perennate, stand up |
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(verb) continue in existence after (an adversity, etc.); "He survived the cancer against all odds" |
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Synonyms: come through, make it, pull through |
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Related Words: defeat, overcome |
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Antonyms: succumb |
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(verb) stay alive; survive; "he could barely exist on such a low wage" |
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Synonyms: exist, live, subsist |
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Related Words: breathe, drift, exist by, freewheel, indwell, live by, live off, live on |
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(verb) live longer than; "She outlived her husband by many years" |
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Synonyms: outlast, outlive |
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