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# survive

verb (survive, survives, survived, surviving)

«survive» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. To survive means to stay alive, especially through something dangerous. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/survive/#m1)
2. To survive means to last through something hard and still be there: the old church survived the storm. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/survive/#m2)
3. To survive someone is to live longer than them. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/survive/#m3)

### In the lessons

Maths: the part that is left after some die or are lost, like plants or fish that survived: survivors = total − lost. Science: living things need food, water, air and shelter to survive; animals adapt to survive. Safety and stories: surviving a storm, a shipwreck, a hard winter.

### Examples

- Of the 30 seeds, 24 survived. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/survive/#x1)
- Only half of the fish survived the winter. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/survive/#x2)
- 3 of the 10 trees did not survive. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/survive/#x3)
- How many plants survived? [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/survive/#x4)
- Camels can survive many days without water. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/survive/#x5)
- Everyone survived the shipwreck. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/survive/#x6)
- Penguins huddle together to survive the cold. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/survive/#x7)
- The old castle has survived for hundreds of years. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/survive/#x8)
- She refuses to survive him, and is buried by his side. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/survive/#x9)

### Note

Regular: survived, surviving. Noun: survival, survivor. «Survived» marks the part that is left. Trap: «3 did not survive» gives the lost part; the survivors are total − 3.

## In Jewish tradition

Maths: the part that is left after some die or are lost, like plants or fish that survived: survivors = total − lost. Science: living things need food, water, air and shelter to survive; animals adapt to survive. Safety and stories: surviving a storm, a shipwreck, a hard winter.

### Examples

- It has survived long enough for the copyright to expire and the book to enter the public domain. (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/survive/#x1)

### Note

Regular: survived, surviving. Noun: survival, survivor. «Survived» marks the part that is left. Trap: «3 did not survive» gives the lost part; the survivors are total − 3.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «survive» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/survive/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«survive» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/survive.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of «survive» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/survive/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«survive» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/survive.html) on Mova free.