survive

English

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman survivre, Old French survivre, from Late Latin supervivere (“to outlive”), from Latin super (“over”) + vivere (“to live”), akin to vita (“life”); see vivid. Compare devive, revive.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /səˈvʌɪv/

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• Rhymes: -aɪv

Verb

survive (third-person singular simple present survives, present participle surviving, simple past and past participle survived)

1. (intransitive) Of a person, to continue to live; to remain alive.
2. (intransitive) Of an object or concept, to continue to exist.
3. (transitive) To live longer than, to outlive.
   • 1817, Walter Scott, Rob Roy, X:

     ‘I am afraid, as will happen in other cases, the treaty of alliance has survived the amicable dispositions in which it had its origin.’

4. (transitive) To live past a life-threatening event.

   He did not survive the accident.

Synonyms

• overlive
• (live longer than): outlive

Antonyms

• (live longer than): predecease

Translations

person: continue to live

Catalan: sobreviure (ca) Chinese: Mandarin: 生存 (zh) (shēngcún) Czech: přežít (cs) Dutch: overleven (nl) Esperanto: postvivi (eo) Finnish: selviytyä, jäädä henkiin, jäädä eloon French: survivre (fr) German: überleben (de) Hungarian: életben marad (hu) Interlingua: superviver (ia) Italian: sopravvivere (it) Japanese: 生き残る (ja) (いきのこる, ikinokoru), 生き抜く (ja) (いきぬく, ikinuku) Latin: supersum (la), vivo (la), reliquus sum (la), reliquus sum (la), vitam supero (la), superstitem sum (la), supersto (la)

Norwegian: overleve (no) Polish: przeżyć (pl) Portuguese: sobreviver (pt) Romanian: supraviețui (ro) Russian: выживать (ru) (vyživát') impf., выжить (ru) (vу́žit') pf., переживать (ru) (pereživát') impf., пережить (ru) (perežít') pf., оставаться в живых (ru) (ostavát'sja v živу́x) impf., остаться в живых (ru) (ostát'sja v živу́x) pf. Serbian: preživeti (sr) Slovene: preživeti (sl) Spanish: sobrevivir (es) Swedish: överleva (sv) Turkish: hayatta kalmak (tr)

object, concept: continue to exist

Catalan: sobreviure (ca) Dutch: overleven (nl) German: überleben (de) Hungarian: tovább él (hu) Latin: supersto (la), supersum (la), supestitem sum (la), vitam supero (la), reliquus sum (la), vivo (la) Norwegian: overleve (no) Polish: przeżyć (pl)

Portuguese: sobreviver (pt) Romanian: supraviețui (ro) Russian: выживать (ru) (vyživát') impf., выжить (ru) (vу́žit') pf., переживать (ru) (pereživát') impf., пережить (ru) (perežít') pf. Serbian: opstati (sr) Slovene: preživeti, obstati Spanish: sobrevivir (es)

live longer than

Catalan: sobreviure (ca) Dutch: overleven (nl) Esperanto: postvivi (eo) Finnish: elää pitempään/kauemmin German: überleben (de) Hungarian: túlél (hu) Latin: vivo (la), vitam supero (la), supersto (la), supersum (la), superstitem sum (la), reliquus sum (la)

Norwegian: overleve (no), leve lenger enn (no) Polish: przeżyć (pl) Romanian: supraviețui (ro) Russian: переживать (ru) (pereživát') impf., пережить (ru) (perežít') pf. Spanish: sobrevivir (es)

live past a life-threatening event

Catalan: sobreviure (ca) Dutch: overleven (nl) Hungarian: túlél (hu) Latin: supersum (la), vivo (la), supersto (la), superstitem sum (la), vitam supero (la), reliquus sum (la)

Polish: przeżyć (pl) Portuguese: sobreviver (pt) Romanian: supraviețui (ro) Russian: переживать (ru) (pereživát') impf., пережить (ru) (perežít') pf. Spanish: sobrevivir (es)

External links

• survive in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• survive in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

Anagrams

• viveurs

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French

Verb

survive

1. first-person singular present subjunctive of survivre
2. third-person singular present subjunctive of survivre