Survive, outlive refer to remaining alive longer than someone else or after some event.
Survive usually means to succeed in keeping alive against odds, to live after some event that has threatened one:
The meaning of survive is to remain alive or in existence :
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Definition of survive verb in oxford advanced learner's dictionary.
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The word, survival, derives from the late latin supervivere, literally meaning to outlive.
Most commonly, the term 'survival' means physical survival — that is, a struggle to avoid physical.
If you survive in difficult circumstances, you manage to live or continue in spite of them and do not let them affect you very much.
To remain alive after the death of someone, the cessation of something, or the occurrence of some event;
Continue to live.
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Definition of survive.
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To continue to live or exist, especially after coming close to dying or being destroyed or after.
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To remain alive to continue to live often + on;
To continue to exist