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| Main Entry: | survive |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | continue to live |
| Synonyms: | bear, carry on, come through, endure, exist, get on, handle, hold out, keep, last, live, make the cut*, outlast, outlive, persevere, persist, pull through, recover, remain, revive, subsist, suffer, sustain, weather, withstand, be extant, be left, carry through, cut it, get through, go all the way, go the limit, keep afloat, live down, live on, live out, live through, make a comeback, outwear, pull out of it, remain alive, ride out*, see through, stand up, tough it out |
| Notes: | to endure means to put up with something or somebody unpleasant; to survive is to continue to live |
| Antonyms: | cease, die |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | extant |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | in existence |
| Synonyms: | actual, alive, around, being, contemporary, current, existing, immediate, instant, living, present, real, remaining, surviving, existent, in current use, not lost, present-day, subsisting, undestroyed |
| Antonyms: | dead, extinct, gone |
| Main Entry: | enduring |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | lasting |
| Synonyms: | abiding, permanent, surviving |
| Main Entry: | remaining |
| Part of Speech: | adjective2 |
| Definition: | surplus |
| Synonyms: | extra, left, leftover, outstanding, residual, spare, surviving, unused, lingering, vestigial |
| Main Entry: | abide |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | remain or continue in a state |
| Synonyms: | continue, endure, last, persevere, persist, remain, survive, keep on |
| Antonyms: | leave, quit, refuse, stop |
| Main Entry: | be |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | exist |
| Synonyms: | abide, act, breathe, continue, do, endure, go on, hold, inhabit, last, live, move, obtain, persist, prevail, remain, rest, stand, stay, subsist, survive, be alive, have being, have place |
| Main Entry: | come through |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | survive bad situation |
| Synonyms: | endure, persist, pull through, ride, survive, withstand, live through, ride out, weather storm |
| Antonyms: | fail |
| Main Entry: | continue |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | persist, carry on |
| Synonyms: | abide, advance, carry forward, draw out, endure, extend, forge ahead, get on with it, go on, hang in, keep at, keep on, keep on truckin', keep the ball rolling, keep up, last, lengthen, linger, live on, loiter, maintain, make headway, move ahead, never cease, outlast, outlive, perdure, persevere, persist in, press on, progress, project, prolong, promote, pursue, push on, reach, remain, rest, ride, run on, stand, stay, stay on, stick at, stick to, survive, sustain, uphold |
| Antonyms: | cease, complete, desist, discontinue, end, finish, halt, stop |
| Main Entry: | cope |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | manage, contend |
| Synonyms: | battle with, buffet, carry on, confront, deal, dispatch, encounter, endure, face, get a handle on, get by, grapple, hack it*, hack*, handle, hold one's own, live with, make go of it, make it, make out*, make the grade, pit oneself against, rise to occasion, struggle, struggle through, suffer, survive, tangle, tussle, weather, wrestle |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | endure |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | continue; be durable |
| Synonyms: | abide, be, bide, carry on, cling, exist, go on, hang on*, hold, hold out, last, linger, live, outlast, outlive, persist, prevail, remain, stand, stay, survive, sustain, wear, be left, be long lived, be timeless, carry through, have no end, hold on, keep on, live on, never say die, perdure, ride out*, run on, stay on, stick to, superannuate, wear on, wear well |
| Antonyms: | discontinue |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | exist |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | be living |
| Synonyms: | abide, be, breathe, continue, endure, happen, last, lie, live, move, obtain, occur, prevail, remain, stand, stay, subsist, survive, be extant, be latent, be present |
| Antonyms: | die |
| Main Entry: | exist |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | get along in life |
| Synonyms: | consist, dwell, endure, get by*, go on, kick*, lie, live, reside, subsist, survive, eke out a living, inhere, make it, stay alive |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | fend for |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | take care of |
| Synonyms: | subsist, support, survive, sustain, eke out existence, look after, make do, make provision for, provide for, stay alive |
| Antonyms: | ignore, neglect |
| Main Entry: | get over |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | recover |
| Synonyms: | mend, overcome, pull through, recuperate, shake off, survive, come round, get better |
| Main Entry: | go through |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | endure |
| Synonyms: | bear, brave, experience, suffer, support, survive, swallow, tolerate, undergo, withstand |
| Antonyms: | surrender, yield |
| Main Entry: | linger |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | continue, endure |
| Synonyms: | abide, bide, cling, hang on, last, persist, remain, stand, stay, survive, wait, stick around |
| Antonyms: | halt, stop |
| Main Entry: | live |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | exist |
| Synonyms: | abide, be, breathe, continue, endure, get along, get by, last, lead, maintain, move, pass, persist, prevail, remain, subsist, survive, be alive, draw breath, have life, make it, remain alive |
| Antonyms: | cease, depart, die |
| Main Entry: | outlast |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | endure beyond another |
| Synonyms: | hang on, outlive, remain, survive, outstay, outwear |
| Antonyms: | fail, fall apart, lose, peter out, shoot, succumb |
| Main Entry: | outlive |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | outlast |
| Synonyms: | continue, endure, hang on, prevail, remain, survive, outstay |
| Main Entry: | overcome |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | beat, defeat |
| Synonyms: | best*, conquer, crush, down*, drown, hurdle, lick*, master, outlive, overpower, overthrow, overwhelm, prevail, prostrate, reduce, render, shock, stun, subdue, subjugate, surmount, survive, throw*, vanquish, weather*, win, worst*, be victorious, come out on top, get around*, get the better of, knock over*, knock socks off, rise above, triumph over, whelm |
| Antonyms: | give in, surrender, yield |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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