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survive
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[ verb ] continue to live; endure or last
Examples "We went without water and food for 3 days" "The legend of Elvis lives on" "These superstitions survive in the backwaters of America" "The racecar driver lived through several very serious accidents" Used in print (High Fidelity, 11:10...)Other innovations with better claims to musical interest survived rehearing to acquire in_time the status of classics . (J. H. Hexter, "Thomas More: On the Margins...)Had More 's writings been wholly limited to such exercises , they would be almost as dimly remembered as those of a dozen or_so other authors living in his time , whose works tenuously survive in the minds of the few hundred scholars who each decade in pursuit of their very specialized occasions read those works . (Howard Fast, April Morning....)I put a_lot more trust in my two legs than in the gun , because the most important thing I had learned about war was that you could run_away and survive to talk_about it . |
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[ verb ] continue in existence after (an adversity, etc.)
Synonyms Examples "He survived the cancer against all odds" Used in print (Frank Oppenheimer, "Science and Fear-- A Discussion...)Most_of these , with horrible exceptions , were conceived as is a ship , not as an attempt to quell the ocean of mankind , nor to deny its force , but as a means to survive and enjoy it . (Frieda Arkin, "The Light of the Sea," in The...)It could have been anyone 's infant , for it had not survived the bassinet . Related terms |
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[ verb ] support oneself
Examples "he could barely exist on such a low wage" "Can you live on $2000 a month in New York City?" "Many people in the world have to subsist on $1 a day" Used in print (Tristram P. Coffin, "Folklore in the American Twentieth...)And so well is such ignorance preserved by the amateur and the money-maker that even at the college_level most_of the hundred odd folklore courses given in the United_States survive on sentiment and nationalism alone . |
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