The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.
Surviving \Sur*viv"ing\, a. Remaining alive; yet living or existing; as, surviving friends; surviving customs.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of survive English)
WordNet
adj. still in existence; "the Wollemi pine found in Australia is a surviving specimen of a conifer thought to have been long extinct and therefore known as a living fossil"; "the only surviving frontier blockhouse in Pennsylvania" [syn: living]
Usage examples of "surviving".
Toward that end, we have gathered ihr finest surviving minds on the planet together.
His surviving units were getting their shields up at last, but most of the capital ships were already streaming air.
The planetary president had died in New Selkirk, but as soon as the surviving government could reach a com, they would have no choice but to order a surrender.
Angus the senior surviving noncom, and he tried to keep himself alive by reminding himself others depended upon him.
Faced with a combination of fighters and the rearmed capital ships, Jahanak had elected to cut his losses, withdrawing his mobile forces to the Lorelei warp point and leaving the surviving fortresses to cover his disengagement.
Their window would be brief, and if any surviving scan sat detected anything.
Angus eased down the passage, flinching as the scattered, surviving emergency lights clicked on.
Wardens have been taken into custody and are awaiting trial with die surviving leaders of the Inquisition.
Their surviving ships fought as individuals against the finely meshed fire of Terran squadrons, and two of them died for every Terran they could kill.
More ships appeared behind her, and their external ordnance lashed out at the air-bleeding wrecks of the surviving fortresses.
There was no doubt: every surviving unit of the Theban battle Beet was coming straight at them.
Captain Chen took his ship and her squadron to meet the surviving Theban super-dreadnoughts.
Nor did he have any intention of bringing his surviving capital ships within range of the weapons mounted by those forts and the planet they circled.
He had them trapped between the surviving Guard, reinforced by a fresh battalion, and a second battalion coming in behind them.
The surviving Synod had gotten together, canonized its dead Prophet, anointed a new Prophet in his stead, and announced its determination to pursue the jihad even unto martyrdom.