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Survived

Survive \Sur*vive"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Survived; p. pr. & vb. n. Surviving.] [F. survivre, L. supervivere; super over + vivere to live. See Super-, and Victuals.] To live beyond the life or existence of; to live longer than; to outlive; to outlast; as, to survive a person or an event.
--Cowper.

I'll assure her of Her widowhood, be it that she survive me, In all my lands and leases whatsoever.
--Shak.

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survived

vb. (en-past of: survive)

Usage examples of "survived".

Caissa wondered that anyone could have survived such a crash but the emergency signal, faint though it was, argued that someone had.

Colonies disappeared, on some worlds, or survived gutted of needed equipment and supplies, with half their population gone to slavers.

She has been in deep shock and by some miracle has survived and regained complete mental control.

A brave captain, Zeeorogh, volunteered to make a solo mission to that system in case our people had survived but were without communication.

Even the most ardent ProLife fanatic admitted to the necessity of discreet culling for a species whose females laid hundreds of eggs, a large proportion of which survived natural disasters.

But as the transfer occurred, she re minded herself that she bad survived a worse terror of complete sense deprivation on Borealis, survived it only because of the Corviki episode.

It had meant sunset, lights out, another day survived - and now it meant only endings.

She was not going to have a disaster on every spaceflight for the rest of her life, and if she did she would just survive it, the way she'd survived everything else.

The Weft, a Fleet guard at the depot, had been shot in the burglary and survived only by shapechanging into the Ssli tank in a larval form.

I never knew the exact details, but I do know they asked for a ransom that neither my family nor his could have survived independently.

To the point where we couldn't have survived, Tanegli is not some innocent overcome by alien spores.

Military shuttles would not have survived in service if they'd been blind to other craft.

She had survived battle after battle in space where any mistake could have killed her, and some nearly had.

She had survived the jealousy of other officers, a hundred mischances, to be where she was now.

Somehow we, and the horses, survived, though all of us were bruised and exhausted.