survive

survive
verb
ADVERB
well

The frescoes have survived remarkably well.

Seedlings survive better in stony soil.

barely, hardly

The islanders could barely survive without an export crop.

just, just about, narrowly

I can just about survive on what I earn.

He narrowly survived several assassination attempts.

(for) long

Nobody can survive long without water.

still

Only one copy of the book still survives.

miraculously

A young boy miraculously survived a 25 000-volt electric shock.

somehow
economically, financially, politically

Many of these teachers are struggling to survive financially.

VERB + SURVIVE
struggle to

poor people struggling to survive

be able to, can, manage to
expect (sb/sth) to

Doctors did not expect him to survive the night.

hope to

She cannot hope to survive long in power.

be likely to, be unlikely to
be lucky to

Lung cancer patients are lucky to survive for five years.

enable sb to, help sb (to)
PREPOSITION
as

Will she survive as party leader?

from

Very little has survived from this period of history.

into

Very few of the children survived into adult life.

on

They survived on roots and berries.

through

She survived through two world wars.

to

Four of their five chickens survived to adulthood.

until

The original apple tree survived until 1911.

PHRASES
the only surviving … , the sole surviving … 

the only surviving member of her family

survive and prosper, survive and thrive

Companies need to keep to deadlines if they are to survive and thrive.

survive intact, survive unscathed

Few buildings survived the war intact.

Survive is used with these nouns as the subject: ↑custom, ↑manuscript, ↑record, ↑relic, ↑remains, ↑species, ↑tradition, ↑victim
Survive is used with these nouns as the object: ↑accident, ↑assault, ↑attack, ↑battle, ↑blast, ↑bombardment, ↑breakup, ↑cancer, ↑challenge, ↑childhood, ↑crash, ↑crisis, ↑destruction, ↑disaster, ↑downturn, ↑drought, ↑earthquake, ↑encounter, ↑explosion, ↑extinction, ↑fall, ↑famine, ↑fire, ↑hardship, ↑illness, ↑impact, ↑incident, ↑injury, ↑journey, ↑massacre, ↑nightmare, ↑onslaught, ↑operation, ↑ordeal, ↑plunge, ↑recession, ↑rigour, ↑siege, ↑storm, ↑tragedy, ↑translation, ↑trip, ↑wife, ↑wreck

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