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surviving
sur·vive S0921700 (sər-vīv′)v. sur·vived, sur·viv·ing, sur·vives v.intr.1. To remain alive or in existence.2. To carry on despite hardships or trauma; persevere: families that were surviving in tents after the flood.3. To remain functional or usable: I dropped the radio, but it survived.v.tr.1. To live longer than; outlive: She survived her husband by five years.2. To live, persist, or remain usable through: plants that can survive frosts; a clock that survived a fall.3. To cope with (a trauma or setback); persevere after: survived child abuse.
[Middle English surviven, from Old French sourvivre, from Latin supervīvere : super-, super- + vīvere, to live; see gwei- in Indo-European roots.]
sur·vi′vor n.surviving (səˈvaɪvɪŋ) adj(of a person) continuing to live, esp after a dangerous situation such as an accident or an illnesscontinuing to existThesaurus| Adj. | 1. | surviving - still in existence; "the Wollemi pine found in Australia is a surviving specimen of a conifer thought to have been long extinct and therefore known as a living fossil"; "the only surviving frontier blockhouse in Pennsylvania"livingextant - still in existence; not extinct or destroyed or lost; "extant manuscripts"; "specimens of graphic art found among extant barbaric folk"- Edward Clodd |
Translationssurvive (səˈvaiv) verb1. to remain alive in spite of (a disaster etc). Few birds managed to survive the bad winter; He didn't survive long after the accident. 活下來，倖免於 活下来，幸存，挺过 2. to live longer than. He died in 1940 but his wife survived him by another twenty years; He is survived by his wife and two sons. 比...活得長 比...活得长surˈvival noun the state of surviving. the problem of survival in sub-zero temperatures; (also adjective) survival equipment. 倖存 幸存surˈviving adjective remaining alive. She has no surviving relatives. 倖存的 幸存的surˈvivor noun a person who survives a disaster etc. There were no survivors of the air crash. 倖存者 幸存者IdiomsSeesurvivesurviving
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