"surviving" 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"
"surviving" in the adjective sense
1. surviving, living
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"
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