- surviving, living - 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"
Antonyms: extinct, nonextant (indirect, via extant)
- survive, last, live, live on, go, endure, hold up, hold out - continue to live; endure or last; "We went without water and food for 3 days"; "These superstitions survive in the backwaters of America"; "The racecar driver lived through several very serious accidents"
Sample sentence:Derived form: noun survival1
The business is going to survive
- survive, pull through, pull round, come through, make it - continue in existence after (an adversity, etc.); "He survived the cancer against all odds"
--2 is one way to get the better of, overcome, defeat
Antonyms: succumb, yield
Sample sentences:Derived forms: noun survivor1, noun survival1
Somebody ----s
=> Somebody ----s something
- exist, survive, live, subsist - support oneself; "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"
Sample sentences:Derived form: noun survival1
Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s on something
Somebody ----s PP
- outlive, outlast, survive - live longer than; "She outlived her husband by many years"
Sample sentences:Derived form: noun survivor2
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something