0 to continue to live or exist, especially after coming close to dying or being destroyed or after being in a difficult or threatening situation: --
"How are you?" "Oh, (I'm) surviving (= life is satisfactory, but not very good)."
The chairman of the board succeeded in surviving the challenge to his authority.
The front passengers were lucky to survive the accident.
The family are struggling to survive on very little money.
None of Shakespeare's plays survives in its original manuscript form.
These plants cannot survive in very cold conditions.
The baby was born with a heart problem and only survived for a few hours.
1 to continue to live or to exist, esp. after a dangerous event: --
The name has survived the demise of the political power with which it was originally identified by almost three centuries.
Later they absorbed the surviving nomadic descendants of the authentic autochtons.
Survival rate was 70 %, which means that each individual has a probability of 70 % of surviving every selection round (year).
The lines that survived for several months could be maintained without a problem later.
In many cases parasites are incapable of surviving and multiplying in the absence of a host organism.
If the particle pair survives, the weighting assigned to it is doubled.
Fifteen infants survived but one baby died in the neonatal period.
I think he is too pessimistic about what the surviving sermons themselves tell us.
