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Meaning of survive

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  survive
      v 1: continue to live through hardship or adversity; "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?" [syn: {survive},
           {last}, {live}, {live on}, {go}, {endure}, {hold up}, {hold
           out}]
      2: continue in existence after (an adversity, etc.); "He
         survived the cancer against all odds" [syn: {survive}, {pull
         through}, {pull round}, {come through}, {make it}] [ant:
         {succumb}, {yield}]
      3: support oneself; "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" [syn:
         {exist}, {survive}, {live}, {subsist}]
      4: live longer than; "She outlived her husband by many years"
         [syn: {outlive}, {outlast}, {survive}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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