Definition of Survive

Verb: survive su(r)'vIv

Continue to live through hardship or adversity
"These superstitions survive in the backwaters of America";
- last, live, live on, go, endure, hold up, hold out
Continue in existence after (an adversity, etc.)
"He survived the cancer against all odds";
- pull through, pull round, come through, make it
Support oneself
"he could barely survive on such a low wage";
- exist, live, subsist
Live longer than
- outlive, outlast