Usually means: Continue to live or exist.
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We found 30 dictionaries that define the word survive:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. survive: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. survive: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. survive: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. survive: Collins English Dictionary
  5. survive: Vocabulary.com
  6. Survive, survive: Wordnik
  7. survive: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. survive: Wiktionary
  9. survive: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. survive: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. survive: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. survive: Dictionary.com
  13. survive: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. survive: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Survive (B'z album), Survive (David Bowie song), Survive (Game), Survive (Nuclear Assault album), Survive (band): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. survive: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. survive: Rhymezone
  18. survive: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. survive: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. survive: Free Dictionary
  21. survive: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. survive: Dictionary/thesaurus
  23. Survive: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  24. Survive: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

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

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. survive: Encyclopedia

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; to outlive.
verb:  (transitive) To live past a life-threatening event.
verb:  (transitive) To be a victim of usually non-fatal harm, to honor and empower the strength of an individual to heal, in particular a living victim of sexual abuse or assault.
verb:  (transitive, sports) Of a team, to avoid relegation or demotion to a lower division or league.

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