Surviving

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Surviving \Sur*viv"ing\, a.
     Remaining alive; yet living or existing; as, surviving
     friends; surviving customs.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:



  Survive \Sur*vive"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Survived}; p. pr. &
     vb. n. {Surviving}.] [F. survivre, L. supervivere; super over
     + vivere to live. See {Super-}, and {Victuals}.]
     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.
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           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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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  surviving
       adj : still in existence; "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" [syn: {living}]