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Surviving   /sərvˈaɪvɪŋ/   Listen
Surviving

adjective
1.
Still in existence.  Synonym: living.  "The only surviving frontier blockhouse in Pennsylvania"



Survive

verb
(past & past part. survived; pres. part. surviving)
1.
Continue to live through hardship or adversity.  Synonyms: endure, go, hold out, hold up, last, live, live on.  "These superstitions survive in the backwaters of America" , "The race car driver lived through several very serious accidents" , "How long can a person last without food and water?"
2.
Continue in existence after (an adversity, etc.).  Synonyms: come through, make it, pull round, pull through.
3.
Support oneself.  Synonyms: exist, live, subsist.  "Can you live on $2000 a month in New York City?" , "Many people in the world have to subsist on $1 a day"
4.
Live longer than.  Synonyms: outlast, outlive.






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"Surviving" Quotes from Famous Books



... in the porch of the guard-house,—that stout building which I have mentioned as the only one surviving the ruin on the west side of the plaza,—and watched the foot go through their evening drill. Classed as musketeers, riflemen, and artillery-men, they were trained to a part of the United States ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. IV, No. 26, December, 1859 • Various

... the interregnum before Samuel (1Samuel vii. 2), we have already 8 x 40 accounted for, while 4 x 40 still remain. For these we must take into account first the years of the two generations for which no numbers are given, namely, the generation of Joshua and his surviving contemporaries (Judges ii. 7), and that of Samuel to Saul, each, it may be conjectured, having the normal 40, and the two together certainly reckoning 80 years. For the remaining 80 the most disputable elements are the 71 years of interregna or of foreign ...
— Prolegomena to the History of Israel • Julius Wellhausen

... the year in which her mother also died. When Martha returned from the convent seminary, a year or so later, she reopened the school, continuing it till about 1839. This school, which was maintained some fifteen years, was always very full. The three surviving sister own and reside in the house which their father built about 1812. One of these sisters married Richard Henry Fisk, a Colored man of good education, who died in California, and she now has charge of the Senate ladies' ...
— History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880. Vol. 2 (of 2) - Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens • George Washington Williams

... backs. In Cranbrook Church were held the fierce theological disputes of Queen Mary's reign which resulted in the imprisonment of the Anabaptists and other dissenters by Chancellor Baker. Over the south porch is the chamber with grated windows known as "Bloody Baker's Prison." Among the old customs surviving at Cranbrook is that which strews the path of the newly-wedded couple as they leave the church with emblems of the bridegroom's trade. The blacksmith walks upon scraps of iron, the shoemaker on leather parings, the carpenter on shavings, ...
— England, Picturesque and Descriptive - A Reminiscence of Foreign Travel • Joel Cook

... her form, but to weep over her grave, and with his motherless child to sit in sorrow on the spot where she breathed her last. Such was the violence of her fever that she said but little, and left her husband without many of those tokens of kindness which surviving friends ...
— Daughters of the Cross: or Woman's Mission • Daniel C. Eddy


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