surviving

Definition of Surviving in English :

Adjective

1. living, surviving

still in existence

Example Sentences:
'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'

living

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Surviving

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adjective

1.

(of a person) continuing to live, esp after a dangerous situation such as an accident or an illness

She wants to spend the remaining years of her life or France, where her surviving friends are.

William Shakespeare's last surviving descendant

2.

continuing to exist

Due to an overall lack of surviving correspondence, Jane Austen's biographers have an incomplete picture of what her day-to-day life was really like.

The railway line, its only surviving link with the north, had been blown up in several places.

surviving examples of 19th-century architecture in the Mid-West

Surviving

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v. sur·vived, sur·viv·ing, sur·vives

v.intr.

1. To remain alive or in existence.

2. To carry on despite hardships or trauma; persevere: families that were surviving in tents after the flood.

3. To remain functional or usable: I dropped the radio, but it survived.

v.tr.

1. To live longer than; outlive: She survived her husband by five years.

2. To live, persist, or remain usable through: plants that can survive frosts; a clock that survived a fall.

3. To cope with (a trauma or setback); persevere after: survived child abuse.

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