survive

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.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /səˈvʌɪv/
• (US) IPA^(key): /sɚˈvaɪv/

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• Rhymes: -aɪv

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.

   His children survived him; he was survived by his children.

   • 1594, William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew, Act II, Scene I:

     And for that dowrie, Ile aſſure her of / Her widdow-hood, be it that ſhe ſuruiue me / In all my Lands and Leaſes whatſoeuer / Let ſpecialties be therefore drawne betweene vs, / That couenants may be kept on either hand.

   • 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.

5. (transitive, sports) Of a team, to avoid relegation or demotion to a lower division or league.

• overlive
• (live longer than): outlive

• (live longer than): predecease

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

• viveurs

survive

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