Unscramble surviving

Definition of surviving

adjective:

• 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". Synonyms: living.

verb:

• continue to live through hardship or adversity; "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?". Synonyms: endure, go, hold out, hold up, last, live, live on, survive.
• continue in existence after (an adversity, etc.); "He survived the cancer against all odds". Synonyms: come through, make it, pull round, pull through, survive. Antonyms: succumb.
• 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". Synonyms: exist, live, subsist, survive.
• live longer than; "She outlived her husband by many years". Synonyms: outlast, outlive, survive.

Related words

breathe, drift, freewheel, perennate.

Rhymes with

conniving, deriving, diving, driving, reviving, reviving, striving, thriving.