Usually means: Continue to live or exist.
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We found 32 dictionaries that define the word survive:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. survive: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. survive: Merriam-Webster
  3. survive: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. survive: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. survive: Collins English Dictionary
  6. survive: Vocabulary.com
  7. Survive, survive: Wordnik
  8. survive: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. survive: Wiktionary
  10. survive: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. survive: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. survive: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. survive: Dictionary.com
  14. survive: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. survive: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Survive (B'z album), Survive (David Bowie song), Survive (Game), Survive (Nuclear Assault album), Survive (band): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. survive: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. survive: Rhymezone
  19. survive: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. survive: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. survive: FreeDictionary.org
  22. survive: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. survive: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. Survive: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  25. Survive: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. survive: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. survive: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. survive: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (intransitive) Of a person, to continue to live; to remain alive.
verb:  (intransitive) Of an object or concept, to continue to exist.
verb:  (transitive) To live longer than (someone); to outlive (someone or something); to live past (a life-threatening event); to outlast (something).
verb:  (transitive) To be a victim of nonfatal but substantial harm and nonetheless to display the strength to heal; especially, after a crime or an illness, especially sexual or physical abuse or assault, cancer, or a natural disaster.
verb:  (transitive, sports) Of a team, to avoid relegation or demotion to a lower division or league.

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