survive

Other forms of survive

past tense

survived·

present participle

surviving·

third person

survives·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about survive

What does survive mean?

survive means "continue to live and avoid dying". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in survive?

survive has 2 syllables: sur-vive. The stress falls on "vive". In IPA it is /sɚˈvaɪv/.

What is another word for survive?

Close synonyms include last, live, live on, go, endure. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of survive?

The recorded antonyms are succumb.

Is survive a common word?

survive is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with survive?

1 word rhymes with survive. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.