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# survive

«survive» in Mova's school dictionary: **to stay alive, especially through something dangerous** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (survive, survives, survived, surviving)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To survive means to stay alive, especially through something dangerous. [tree →](https://md.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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/survive/#m2)

3) To survive someone is to live longer than them. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/survive/#m3)

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

- [The oldest surviving camera photograph, by Nicéphore Niépce in France around 1826 or 1827, needed hours or even days of exposure.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/20-photography-and-phone-cameras/14/)
- [Crocodiles survived the asteroid too, and they are closer relatives of birds than of lizards.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/76-end-of-the-dinosaurs-and-birds/16/)
- [Released animals often wear radio collars or satellite tags, so scientists can see whether they find food, survive and have young.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/114-back-to-the-wild/13/)
- [Fewer than half of wild lion cubs survive their first two years.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/124-the-lion-king-real-lions/16/)
- [Many moths rest still on trees looking like bark, and when factory soot darkened trees, dark moths survived better than pale ones.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/189-masters-of-camouflage/11/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «survive» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/survive/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.