Entry Word: survive

Function: verb

Meaning: 1 to come safely through <the cat miraculously survived a two-story fall>

Synonyms ride (out), weather

Related Words outlast, outlive; pull through; abide, continue, endure, hang on, last, lead, persist; be, breathe, exist, live, subsist; flourish, prosper, thrive

Near Antonyms croak [slang], decease, depart, die, expire, pass (on), pass away, perish, succumb; disappear, evaporate, fade, vanish; cease, end, stop

2 to continue to operate or to meet oneʼs needs <some old-world customs still survive in modern-day America> — see hold out