survive
verb
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
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Senses
Sense 1 verb
continue to live through hardship or adversity
We went without water and food for 3 days
Types & categories
- hold water hyponym
- perennate hyponym
- live out hyponym
Related & opposite
Sense 2 verb
continue in existence after (an adversity, etc.)
He survived the cancer against all odds
Types & categories
- defeat hypernym
Related & opposite
- succumb antonym
- survivor derivation
- survival derivation
- convalesce entails
Sense 3 verb
support oneself
he could barely exist on such a low wage
Types & categories
Related & opposite
- survivor derivation
- survival derivation
- subsistence derivation
- survive verb group
Sense 4 verb
live longer than
She outlived her husband by many years
Related & opposite
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | survival |
| 1 | entails | Related & opposite | live |
| 1 | verb group | Related & opposite | live |
| 1 | verb group | Related & opposite | subsist |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | hold water |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | perennate |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | live out |
| 2 | antonym | Related & opposite | succumb |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | survivor |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | survival |
| 2 | entails | Related & opposite | convalesce |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | defeat |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | survivor |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | survival |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | subsistence |
| 3 | verb group | Related & opposite | survive |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | breathe |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | freewheel |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | survivor |
| 4 | entails | Related & opposite | live |