survive
verb (used without object)
to remain alive after the death of someone, the cessation of something, or the occurrence of some event; continue to live.
survived
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past participleof survive.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof survive.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
surviveverb (used without object)to remain alive after the death of someone, the cessation of something, or the occurrence of some event; continue to live.
Example Sentences
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Piker has survived his first hellish election cycle as a main character.
From Slate ● Nov. 4, 2026
Wright is survived by his husband, father, sister and niece.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2026
De Miguel is survived by his daughter, Carla de Miguel Fernandez, who was born in 2025.
From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026
Rome's top official for cultural heritage, Claudio Parisi Presicce, called the work an "absolute masterpiece, perhaps the most important pictorial work to have survived from antiquity".
From Barron's ● Nov. 3, 2026
For Tía Beatriz to have survived a hurricane in Nicaragua as a young woman and come all this way to the United States only to die in another storm—it wasn’t fair.
From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz
