surviving

Words with a similar base: surviving

'surviving'

[survive.v.01] as in: continue to live through hardship or adversity

Examples:
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?

'surviving'

[survive.v.02] as in: continue in existence after (an adversity, etc.)

Examples:
He survived the cancer against all odds

'surviving'

[exist.v.02] as in: support oneself

Examples:
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

'surviving'

[outlive.v.01] as in: live longer than

Examples:
She outlived her husband by many years

'surviving'

[surviving.s.01] as in: still in existence

Examples:
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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