surviving Meaning, Definition & Usage

1. verb continue to live through hardship or adversity
   live on; last; hold up; live; endure; hold out; go; survive.
   
   • 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?
2. verb continue in existence after (an adversity, etc.)
   survive; pull round; make it; come through; pull through.
   
   • He survived the cancer against all odds
3. verb support oneself
   survive; live; exist; subsist.
   
   • 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
4. verb live longer than
   survive; outlast; outlive.
   
   • She outlived her husband by many years
5. adjective satellite still in existence
   living.
   
   • 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

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