survive

verbs

continue to live through hardship or adversity
"We went without water and food for 3 days"; "These superstitions survive in the backwaters of America"; "The race car driver lived through several very serious accidents"; "how long can a person last without food and water?"
endure, go, hold out, hold up, last, live, live on, survive
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survival
continue in existence after (an adversity, etc.)
"He survived the cancer against all odds"
come through, make it, pull round, pull through, survive
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survivor
is derived from
survival
antonym
succumb
support oneself
"he could barely exist on such a low wage"; "Can you live on $2000 a month in New York City?"; "Many people in the world have to subsist on $1 a day"
exist, live, subsist, survive
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survival
live longer than
"She outlived her husband by many years"
outlast, outlive, survive
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survivor