survive

survive is a 7-letter English word with 6 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To live beyond the life or existence of; to live longer than; to outlive; to outlast; as, to survive a person or an event. Face value is 13 in Scrabble and 16 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

7 letters · Scrabble 13 · Words With Friends 16 · 6 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. To live beyond the life or existence of; to live longer than; to outlive; to outlast; as, to survive a person or an event.
2. intransitive verb. To remain alive; to continue to live.
3. verb. support oneself

   "he could barely exist on such a low wage"

   "Can you live on $2000 a month in New York City?"

   Synonyms: exist, live, subsist

4. verb. continue to live through hardship or adversity

   "We went without water and food for 3 days"

   "These superstitions survive in the backwaters of America"

   Synonyms: endure, go, last, live

5. verb. live longer than

   "She outlived her husband by many years"

   Synonyms: outlast, outlive

6. verb. continue in existence after (an adversity, etc.)

   "He survived the cancer against all odds"

Synonyms

exist, live, subsist, endure, go, last, outlast, outlive

Common word forms

survived, surviver, survives, surviving

Words from these letters

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