The strong will survive and the weak will die.
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Survive
//sɚˈvaɪv//
Synonyms for "survive" (122 found)
Ranked by relevance and common usage.
Closest matches (25)
Strong matches (36)
Related words (61)
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More general
11 entriesAntonyms
2 entriesSynonyms
3 entriesRelated terms
5 entriesentails
2 entriesetymologically related_to
3 entrieshas a
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1 entriesmanner of
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10 entriessimilar
10 entriesTranslations
223 translations across 56 languages.
Afrikaans
4 entries- oorleef verb (person: continue to live)
- oorleef verb (object, concept: continue to exist)
- oorleef verb (live longer than)
- oorleef verb (live past a life-threatening event)
Albanian
1 entries- mbijeto verb (person: continue to live)
Ancient Greek
4 entries- διαζάω verb (person: continue to live)
- διαζάω verb (live longer than)
- δῐᾰμένω verb (object, concept: continue to exist)
- περιλείπομαι verb (person: continue to live)
Arabic
3 entries- نَجَا verb (person: continue to live)
- نَجَا verb (object, concept: continue to exist)
- نَجَا verb (live past a life-threatening event)
Armenian
4 entries- ապրել verb (person: continue to live)
- գոյատևել verb (object, concept: continue to exist)
- կենդանի մնալ verb (person: continue to live)
- ողջ մնալ verb (person: continue to live)
Asturian
3 entries- sobrevivir verb (person: continue to live)
- sobrevivir verb (live longer than)
- sobrevivir verb (live past a life-threatening event)
Azerbaijani
4 entries- sağ qalmaq verb (person: continue to live)
- sağ qalmaq verb (live past a life-threatening event)
- sağ çıxmaq verb (person: continue to live)
- sağ çıxmaq verb (live past a life-threatening event)
Belarusian
2 entries- перажы́ць verb (person: continue to live)
- перажыва́ць verb (person: continue to live)
Bulgarian
4 entries- надживявам verb (live longer than)
- оцеле́я verb (person: continue to live)
- оцеля́вам verb (person: continue to live)
- преживе́я verb (person: continue to live)
Catalan
4 entries- sobreviure verb (person: continue to live)
- sobreviure verb (object, concept: continue to exist)
- sobreviure verb (live longer than)
- sobreviure verb (live past a life-threatening event)
Chinese Mandarin
4 entries- 存活 verb (person: continue to live)
- 幸存 verb (live past a life-threatening event)
- 殘存 /残存 verb (object, concept: continue to exist)
- 活下來 /活下来 verb (live past a life-threatening event)
Czech
2 entries- přežít verb (person: continue to live)
- přežívat verb (person: continue to live)
Danish
1 entries- overleve verb (person: continue to live)
Dutch
4 entries- overleven verb (person: continue to live)
- overleven verb (object, concept: continue to exist)
- overleven verb (live longer than)
- overleven verb (live past a life-threatening event)
Esperanto
4 entries- postvivi verb (person: continue to live)
- postvivi verb (live longer than)
- supervivi verb (person: continue to live)
- transvivi verb (person: continue to live)
Estonian
1 entries- ellu jääma verb (person: continue to live)
Faroese
1 entries- yvirliva verb (person: continue to live)
Finnish
4 entries- elää kauemmin verb (live longer than)
- elää pitempään verb (live longer than)
- jäädä eloon verb (person: continue to live)
- jäädä eloon verb (object, concept: continue to exist)
French
1 entries- survivre verb (person: continue to live)
Galician
4 entries- sobrevivir verb (person: continue to live)
- sobrevivir verb (object, concept: continue to exist)
- sobrevivir verb (live longer than)
- sobrevivir verb (live past a life-threatening event)
Georgian
2 entries- გადარჩენა verb (person: continue to live)
- სიკვდილს გადარჩენა verb (person: continue to live)
German
3 entries- überleben verb (person: continue to live)
- überleben verb (object, concept: continue to exist)
- überleben verb (live longer than)
Greek
4 entries- γλιτώνω verb (live past a life-threatening event)
- επιβιώνω verb (person: continue to live)
- επιβιώνω verb (object, concept: continue to exist)
- επιζώ verb (live past a life-threatening event)
Hebrew
2 entries- שרד verb (object, concept: continue to exist)
- שרד verb (live past a life-threatening event)
Higaonon
1 entries- naluwas verb (person: continue to live)
Hungarian
4 entries- fennmarad verb (object, concept: continue to exist)
- megmarad verb (object, concept: continue to exist)
- tovább él verb (object, concept: continue to exist)
- túlél verb (live longer than)
Indonesian
4 entries- bertahan verb (object, concept: continue to exist)
- bertahan hidup verb (person: continue to live)
- menyintas verb (person: continue to live)
- sintas verb (person: continue to live)
Interlingua
1 entries- superviver verb (person: continue to live)
Irish
2 entries- tar verb (person: continue to live)
- tar slán verb (person: continue to live)
Italian
3 entries- durare verb (live longer than)
- perdurare verb (live past a life-threatening event)
- sopravvivere verb (person: continue to live)
Japanese
3 entries- 残存する verb (person: continue to live)
- 生き抜く verb (person: continue to live)
- 生き残る verb (person: continue to live)
Korean
2 entries- 살아남다 verb (person: continue to live)
- 생존하다 verb (person: continue to live)
Ladino
1 entries- sovrebivir verb (person: continue to live)
Latin
4 entries- reliquus sum verb (person: continue to live)
- reliquus sum verb (person: continue to live)
- reliquus sum verb (object, concept: continue to exist)
- reliquus sum verb (live longer than)
Luxembourgish
4 entries- iwwerliewen verb (person: continue to live)
- iwwerliewen verb (object, concept: continue to exist)
- iwwerliewen verb (live longer than)
- iwwerliewen verb (live past a life-threatening event)
Macedonian
2 entries- преживее verb (person: continue to live)
- преживува verb (person: continue to live)
North Frisian
1 entries- auerlewe verb (person: continue to live)
Norwegian
4 entries- leve lenger enn verb (live longer than)
- overleve verb (person: continue to live)
- overleve verb (object, concept: continue to exist)
- overleve verb (live longer than)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- overleve verb (person: continue to live)
Occitan
1 entries- subreviure verb (person: continue to live)
Old English
4 entries- alibban verb (person: continue to live)
- aspedan verb (person: continue to live)
- belæfan verb (person: continue to live)
- gedigan verb (person: continue to live)
Polish
4 entries- przetrwać verb (person: continue to live)
- przeżywać verb (person: continue to live)
- przeżywać verb (object, concept: continue to exist)
- przeżyć verb (person: continue to live)
Portuguese
4 entries- sobreviver verb (person: continue to live)
- sobreviver verb (object, concept: continue to exist)
- sobreviver verb (live longer than)
- sobreviver verb (live past a life-threatening event)
Romanian
4 entries- supraviețui verb (person: continue to live)
- supraviețui verb (object, concept: continue to exist)
- supraviețui verb (live longer than)
- supraviețui verb (live past a life-threatening event)
Russian
4 entries- вы́жить verb (person: continue to live)
- вы́жить verb (object, concept: continue to exist)
- выжива́ть verb (person: continue to live)
- выжива́ть verb (object, concept: continue to exist)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- opstati verb (object, concept: continue to exist)
- preživljávati verb (person: continue to live)
- prežíveti verb (person: continue to live)
- prežívjeti verb (person: continue to live)
Slovak
2 entries- prežiť verb (person: continue to live)
- prežívať verb (person: continue to live)
Slovene
3 entries- obstati verb (object, concept: continue to exist)
- preživeti verb (object, concept: continue to exist)
- preživẹ́ti verb (person: continue to live)
Spanish
4 entries- pervivir verb (person: continue to live)
- pervivir verb (object, concept: continue to exist)
- pervivir verb (live past a life-threatening event)
- sobrevivir verb (person: continue to live)
Swedish
2 entries- överleva verb (person: continue to live)
- överleva verb (live longer than)
Tamil
3 entries- தொடர் verb (object, concept: continue to exist)
- பிழை verb (person: continue to live)
- பிழை verb (live past a life-threatening event)
Turkish
1 entries- hayatta kalmak verb (person: continue to live)
Ukrainian
4 entries- ви́жити verb (person: continue to live)
- ви́жити verb (object, concept: continue to exist)
- вижива́ти verb (person: continue to live)
- вижива́ти verb (object, concept: continue to exist)
Vietnamese
1 entries- sống sót verb (person: continue to live)
Yiddish
3 entries- איבערלעבן verb (person: continue to live)
- איבערלעבן verb (object, concept: continue to exist)
- איבערלעבן verb (live longer than)
Zazaki
2 entries- nêmerden verb (live past a life-threatening event)
- weş menden verb (person: continue to live)
Sample sentences
21 total sentences available.
Who can survive after a nuclear war?
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Few people, if any, could survive a nuclear war.
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Our company failed to survive against cutthroat competition.
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.