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Word Meanings - SURVIVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To live beyond the life or existence of; to live longer than; to outlive; to outlast; as, to survive a person or an event. Cowper. I'll assure her of Her widowhood, be it that she survive me, In all my lands and leases whatsoever. Shak.

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  • BREATHE
    Etym: 1. To respire; to inhale and exhale air; hence;, to live. "I am in health, I breathe." Shak. Breathes there a man with soul so dead Sir W. Scott. 2. To take breath; to rest from action. Well! breathe awhile, and then to it again! Shak. 3.
  • EXIST
    exist; ex out + sistere to cause to stand, to set, put, place, stand 1. To be as a fact and not as a mode; to have an actual or real being, whether material or spiritual. Who now, alas! no more is missed Than if he never did exist. Swift.
  • EXISTER
    One who exists.
  • ABIDER
    1. One who abides, or continues. "Speedy goers and strong abiders." Sidney. 2. One who dwells; a resident. Speed.
  • TARRY
    Consisting of, or covered with, tar; like tar.
  • EXISTIBLE
    Capable of existence. Grew.
  • ENDUREMENT
    Endurance. South.
  • ACCRUE
    Etym: 1. To increase; to augment. And though power failed, her courage did accrue. Spenser. 2. To come to by way of increase; to arise or spring as a growth or result; to be added as increase, profit, or damage, especially as the produce of money
  • SUBSISTENCY
    Subsistence.
  • REMAIN
    re- + manere to stay, remain. See Mansion, and cf. Remainder, 1. To stay behind while others withdraw; to be left after others have been removed or destroyed; to be left after a number or quantity has been subtracted or cut off; to be left as not
  • EXISTENT
    Having being or existence; existing; being; occurring now; taking place. The eyes and mind are fastened on objects which have no real being, as if they were truly existent. Dryden.
  • ACCRUER
    The act of accruing; accretion; as, title by accruer.
  • CONTINUEDLY
    Continuously.
  • BREATHER
    1. One who breathes. Hence: One who lives. One who utters. One who animates or inspires. 2. That which puts one out of breath, as violent exercise.
  • SUBSISTENCE
    See HOOKER (more info) 1. Real being; existence. Not only the things had subsistence, but the very images were of some creatures existing. Stillingfleet. 2. Inherency; as, the subsistence of qualities in
  • DWELL
    AS. dwellan to deceive, hinder, delay, dwelian to err; akin to Icel. dvelja to delay, tarry, Sw. dväljas to dwell, Dan. dvæle to linger, 1. To delay; to linger. 2. To abide; to remain; to continue. I 'll rather dwell in my necessity. Shak. Thy
  • ABIDE
    1. To wait; to pause; to delay. Chaucer. 2. To stay; to continue in a place; to have one's abode; to dwell; to sojourn; -- with with before a person, and commonly with at or in before a place. Let the damsel abide with us a few days. Gen. xxiv.
  • SUBSISTENCE DEPARTMENT
    A staff department of the United States army charged, under the supervision of the Chief of Staff, with the purchasing and issuing to the army of such supplies as make up the ration. It also supplies, for authorized sales, certain articles of food
  • CONTINUER
    One who continues; one who has the power of perseverance or persistence. "Indulgent continuers in sin." Hammond. I would my horse had the speed of your tongue, and so good a continuer. Shak.
  • SOJOURNMENT
    Temporary residence, as that of a stranger or a traveler.
  • INDWELLING
    Residence within, as in the heart. The personal indwelling of the Spirit in believers. South.
  • POSTEXIST
    To exist after; to live subsequently.
  • NONEXISTENCE
    1. Absence of existence; the negation of being; nonentity. A. Baxter. 2. A thing that has no existence. Sir T. Browne.
  • DISCONTINUE
    To interrupt the continuance of; to intermit, as a practice or habit; to put an end to; to cause to cease; to cease using, to stop; to leave off. Set up their conventicles again, which had been discontinued. Bp. Burnet. I have discontinued school
  • SELF-EXISTENT
    Existing of or by himself,independent of any other being or cause; -- as, God is the only self-existent being.
  • MISBEHAVE
    To behave ill; to conduct one's self improperly; -- often used with a reciprocal pronoun.
  • NONEXISTENT
    Not having existence.
  • UPBREATHE
    To breathe up or out; to exhale. Marston.
  • COEXIST
    To exist at the same time; -- sometimes followed by with. Of substances no one has any clear idea, farther than of certain simple ideas coexisting together. Locke. So much purity and integrity . . . coexisting with so much decay and so
  • COEXISTENT
    Existing at the same time with another. -- n.

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