Definition of survives

"survives" in the verb sense

1. survive, last, live, live on, go, endure, hold up, hold out

continue to live and avoid dying

"We went without water and food for 3 days"

"These superstitions survive in the backwaters of America"

"The race car driver lived through several very serious accidents"

"how long can a person last without food and water?" "One crash victim died, the other lived"

2. survive, pull through, pull round, come through, make it

continue in existence after (an adversity, etc.

"He survived the cancer against all odds"

3. exist, survive, live, subsist

support oneself

"he could barely exist on such a low wage"

"Can you live on $2000 a month in New York City?"

"Many people in the world have to subsist on $1 a day"

4. outlive, outlast, survive

live longer than

"She outlived her husband by many years"

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Quotations for survives

And in the wreck of noble lives
Something immortal still survives. [ Longfellow ]

No man's religion ever survives his morals. [ South ]

The soul,
Though made in time, survives for aye;
And, though it hath beginning, sees no end. [ Sir J. Davies ]

Error's monstrous shapes from earth are driven
They fade, they fly - but truth survives the flight. [ Bryant ]

There are few women whose charm survives their beauty. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

In most men there is a dead poet whom the man survives. [ Sainte-Beuve ]

Admiration is a youthful fancy which scarcely ever survives to mature years. [ H. W. Shaw ]

That prudery which survives youth and beauty resembles a scarecrow left in the fields after harvest. [ J. Petit-Senn ]

All thought is immoral. Its very essence is destruction. If you think of anything you kill it. Nothing survives being thought of. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]

It is hard to say which of the two we ought most to lament, - the unhappy man who sinks under the sense of his dishonor, or him who survives it. [ Junius ]

Avarice begets more vices than Priam did children, and like Priam survives them all. It starves its keeper to surfeit those who wish him dead, and makes him submit to more mortifications to lose heaven than the martyr undergoes to gain it. [ Colton ]

Hair is the most delicate and lasting of our materials, and survives us, like love. It is so light, so gentle, so escaping from the idea of death, that, with a lock of hair belonging to a child or friend, we may almost look up to heaven and compare notes with the angelic nature, - may almost say, I have a piece of thee here not unworthy of thy being now. [ Leigh Hunt ]

Where are Shakespeare's imagination, Bacon's learning, Galileo's dream? Where is the sweet fancy of Sidney, the airy spirit of Fletcher, and Milton's thought severe? Methinks such things should not die and dissipate, when a hair can live for centuries, and a brick of Egypt will last three thousand years. I am content to believe that the mind of man survives, somehow or other, his clay. [ Barry Cornwall ]

survives in Scrabble®

The word survives is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required. Because it is longer than 7 letters, you would have to play off an existing word or do it in several moves.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 14

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters survives:

SURVIVES
(162)

Seven Letter Word Alert: (2 words)

survive, viruses

 

All Scrabble® Plays For The Word survives

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The 200 Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays For Words Using The Letters In survives

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survives in Words With Friends™

The word survives is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required. Because it is longer than 7 letters, you would have to play off an existing word or do it in several moves.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 17

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters survives:

SURVIVES
(162)

Seven Letter Word Alert: (2 words)

survive, viruses

 

All Words With Friends™ Plays For The Word survives

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The 200 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In survives

SURVIVES
(162)
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(143 = 108 + 35)
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(125 = 90 + 35)
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(114)
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