survive

sur·vive

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.

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.

Origin: Middle English surviven, from Old French sourvivre, from Latin supervīvere : super-, super- + vīvere, to live; see g^wei- in Indo-European roots.

Related Forms:

• survivor sur·viˈvor noun