Synonyms for survive
Definitions
- v. 1
Of a person, to continue to live; to remain alive.
Whether by a miracle or by good luck, all twenty passengers survived.
- v. 2
Of an object or concept, to continue to exist.
This town has been hit by two hurricanes, but it survives.
- v. 3
To live past (a life-threatening event)
He did not survive the accident.
- v. 4
To live longer than (someone); to outlive (someone or something); to outlast (something).
his children survived him; he was survived by his children
Related words
- Word family
- survivable survivor survival
Forms
- Past participle
- survived
e.g. survived → endured, lived, lasted, remained…
Example sentences
- remain No visitor can remain in the hospital after 9 p.m.
- endure They had to endure great hardship during the war.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| survive | rising | |
| remain | steady | |
| endure | rising |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 2 letters
- go1
- 4 letters
- last1, live1
- 5 letters
- exist2
- 6 letters
- remain2, endure2, astand
- 7 letters
- outlast2, outlive2, subsist2
- 8 letters
- overlive
- 10 letters
- outsurvive
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (exist2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- survivre
- Italiano
- sopravvivere
- Deutsch
- überleben
- Català
- sobreviure