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survivor Definition

sur·vi·vor (sər vī′vər)

noun

  1. a person or thing that survives; specif., a person who has survived an ordeal or great misfortune
  2. a person regarded as resilient or courageous enough to be able to overcome hardship, misfortune, etc.

survivor Synonyms

survivor

n.

one who has escaped, one still living, one spared, one left behind, relict, posterity, descendant, heir, widow, widower, orphan, derelict.

survivor Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • torture: Provide training for health professionals working with torture survivors.
  • rescue: But we also have areas where each team alone can, in theory, rescue every survivor.

Adjective modifier

  • sole: Richard is now the sole legitimate survivor of the House of York.
  • lone: Rees is the lone survivor in the car crash that killed Diana.
  • kevlar: General growth rouse bar in twenty-nine the kevlar survivors ' .
  • titanic: The archive is particularly strong in the areas of maritime history and includes interviews with seafarers, dock workers and Titanic survivors.

Modifies a noun

  • testimony: Clearly, what is needed is a gathering of oral histories encompassing all forms of survivor testimony including sustained dialog.
  • guilt: It confronts serious issue of AIDS such as safer sex, combination therapies, survivor guilt and returning to work.

Noun used with modifier

  • polio: Halstead LS, Rossi CD: New problems in old polio patients: Result of a survey of 539 polio survivors.
  • holocaust: As for the evil of the holocaust, I notice that the holocaust survivors have learned no lessons.
  • tsunami: The leaflets to be distributed to tsunami survivors tell them to prepare for death.
  • stroke: Results: Stroke survivors had depressed visual field sensitivity compared with controls.
  • earthquake: Claw hammers, crow bars, saws, dust pans and other tools provided by Mercy Corps are helping earthquake survivors implement clean-up plans.
  • post-polio: Many post-polio survivors exhibit an extraordinary commitment to exercise, a legacy from their recovery from polio.

Possessives

  • tv: Coverage of the tv's survivor and event quot we've.

Preposition: of

  • massacre: It meant they must have thought I was a survivor of the massacre there earlier this year.
  • shipwreck: Being Caithness, lifeboats awaited survivors of these musical shipwrecks.
  • polio: Thus, survivors of polio developed a special relation to their bodies unknown to able-bodied persons.
  • abuse: Perhaps you are a survivor of abuse seeking information for yourself.
  • trauma: The survivor of trauma may feel fearful or depressed.
survivor Quotes

Complete the mission, though I be the lone survivor. Never leave a fallen comrade to fall into the hands of the enemy.

—Anonymous