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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
survive/səˈvʌɪv/

▶verb continue to live or exist.

■ continue to live or exist in spite of (an accident or ordeal).

■ remain alive after the death of.

– derivatives
survivability noun,
survivable adjective.

– origin ME: from OFr. sourvivre, from L. supervivere, from super- ‘in addition’ + vivere ‘live’.

'survive' also found in these Oxford entries:

abortion - bowfin - emerge - fitness - forlorn - get - hardy - herbaceous perennial - live - lungfish - miscarriage - mudfish - mudminnow - natural selection - number - outlive - refugium - resurrection plant - select - self-supporting - spacesuit - suicide - supercool

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