survive: meaning and words from its letters
7 letters · 13 letter points · starts with S · ends with E
Meaning of survive
verb
- intransitive
Of a person, to continue to live; to remain alive.
Example: Whether by a miracle or by good luck, all twenty passengers survived.
- intransitive
Of an object or concept, to continue to exist.
Example: This town has been hit by two hurricanes, but it survives.
- transitive
To live past (a life-threatening event)
Example: Whether by a miracle or by good luck, all twenty passengers survived the crash.
- transitive
To live longer than (someone); to outlive (someone or something); to outlast (something).
Example: his children survived him; he was survived by his children
Listed forms: survives, surviving, survived, glossary, survivest.
Source: Wiktionary — survive.
Adapted from Wiktionary contributors via Kaikki.org. Selected senses and forms; quotations omitted. Definition text is CC BY-SA 4.0.
Synonyms by meaning
Words are grouped by sense, so they are not necessarily interchangeable in every context. Search synonyms for survive.
verb
continue to live and avoid dying
verb
continue in existence after (an adversity, etc.)
- pull through
- pull round
- come through
- make it
verb
support oneself
verb
live longer than
Open English WordNet Team, 2025, derived from Princeton University WordNet; selected synonym groups under CC BY 4.0. Source · OEWN notice · Princeton notice.
Is survive in our word lists?
| Word list | Status |
|---|---|
| American English | Found |
| British English | Found |
| Extended English | Found |
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Letter-value score of survive
S(1) + U(1) + R(1) + V(4) + I(1) + V(4) + E(1) = 13 points.
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Anagrams of survive
0 other standard-list words use exactly these letters, including repeated letters.
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Shorter words from survive
37 shorter standard-list words can be made using no letter more often than it occurs in survive. Showing up to 24, longest first.