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:
The baby was born with a heart problem and only survived for a few hours.
These plants cannot survive in very cold conditions.
None of Shakespeare's plays survives in its original manuscript form.
The family are struggling to survive on very little money.
The front passengers were lucky to survive the accident.
The chairman of the board succeeded in surviving the challenge to his authority.
"How are you?" "Oh, (I'm) surviving (= life is satisfactory, but not very good)."
1 to continue to live or to exist, esp. after a dangerous event:
There's only a fifty-fifty chance that she'll survive the operation.
Friendless and jobless, he wondered how he would survive the year ahead.
Fugitive families who have fled the fighting in the cities are now trying to survive in the mountains.
A large amount of money will have to be injected into the company if it is to survive.
The influence of the recent death of a spouse on the parenting function of the surviving parent.
Ultimately the genre survives in the twenty-first century primarily in our university choruses and local choral societies.
Although a second piano part has not survived, one feels again that a real opportunity to prompt further research has been lost.
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