survive

survive /sə'vaivə/
  • ngoại động từ
    • sống lâu hơn
      • to survive one's contemporaries: sống lâu hơn những người cùng thời
    • sống qua, qua khỏi được
      • to survive all perils: sống qua mọi sự nguy hiểm
  • nội động từ
    • sống sót, còn lại, tồn tại

Word families (Nouns, Verbs, Adjectives, Adverbs): survival, survivor, survive, surviving, survivable

Xem thêm: last, live, live on, go, endure, hold up, hold out, pull through, pull round, come through, make it, exist, live, subsist, outlive, outlast



survive

Từ điển Collocation

survive verb

ADV. well (used with another adverb or in the forms better or best) The frescoes have survived remarkably well. Seedlings survive better in stony soil. | barely, hardly The islanders could barely survive without an export crop. | just (about), narrowly I can just about survive on what I earn. The prime minister narrowly survived a leadership challenge. | (for) long Nobody can survive long without water. | still Only one copy of the book still survives. | miraculously A schoolboy miraculously survived a 25,000-volt electric shock. | somehow

VERB + SURVIVE struggle to poor people struggling to survive | be able to, can/could, manage to | expect (sb/sth) to Doctors did not expect him to survive the night. | hope to She cannot hope to survive long in power. | be likely/unlikely to | be lucky to Once diagnosed with lung cancer, a patient is lucky to survive for five years. | enable sb to, help sb (to)

PREP. as Will she survive as party leader? | from Very little has survived from this period of history. | into Very few of the children survived into adult life. | on They survived on roots and berries. | through She survived through two world wars. | until The original apple tree survived until 1911.

PHRASES the only/sole surviving sb/sth the only surviving member of her family | survive intact/unscathed Few buildings survived the war intact.

Từ điển WordNet

    v.

  • continue to live; endure or last; last, live, live on, go, endure, hold up, hold out

    We went without water and food for 3 days

    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?

  • continue in existence after (an adversity, etc.); pull through, pull round, come through, make it

    He survived the cancer against all odds

  • support oneself; exist, live, subsist

    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

  • live longer than; outlive, outlast

    She outlived her husband by many years

English Synonym and Antonym Dictionary

survives|survived|surviving
syn.: continue outlast outlive remain