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Synonyms for survived


Grammar : Verb
Spell : ser-vahyv
Phonetic Transcription : sərˈvaɪv

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Définition of survived

Origin :
  • early 15c., "act or condition of one person outliving another," originally in the legal (inheritance) sense, from Anglo-French survivre, Old French souvivre, from Latin supervivere "live beyond, live longer than," from super "over, beyond" (see super-) + vivere "to live" (see vivid). Related: Survived; surviving.
  • verb continue to live
Example sentences :
  • But she knew that she had survived them, that some great calamity had fallen upon and destroyed them.
  • Extract from : « Green Mansions » by W. H. Hudson
  • Thacher was Avery's companion and survived to tell the tale.
  • Extract from : « The Works of Whittier, Volume I (of VII) » by John Greenleaf Whittier
  • Its effects were, however, beneficial to the villagers who survived.
  • Extract from : « English Villages » by P. H. Ditchfield
  • By this traffic Germany had survived for a century and a half.
  • Extract from : « City of Endless Night » by Milo Hastings
  • Hilary Grendon was a methodical man: that was the reason he had survived.
  • Extract from : « Slaves of Mercury » by Nat Schachner
  • He had survived too many battles to be in doubt for a moment about what to do.
  • Extract from : « White Fang » by Jack London
  • To those that survived it was not tragedy, but realisation and achievement.
  • Extract from : « White Fang » by Jack London
  • The duchess only survived Fox a year; she died in 1806, beloved, charitable, penitent.
  • Extract from : « Beaux and Belles of England » by Mary Robinson
  • Diabolus, like the bad genius in the fairy tale, survived for fresh mischief.
  • Extract from : « Bunyan » by James Anthony Froude
  • He had survived all his sons and grandsons, except the King of Spain.
  • Extract from : « The Memoirs of Louis XIV., His Court and The Regency, Complete » by Duc de Saint-Simon

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