surviving
ser vahy ving
- v continue to live through hardship or adversity
- v continue in existence after (an adversity, etc.)
- v support oneself
- v live longer than
- s 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
- How Mohammad Amir Ajmal Qasab, the surviving gunman from the Mumbai terrorist massacre, made the long journey from a Pakistani village to a bloodstained railroad station.
- We can do far more than we think to improve our odds of preventing and surviving even the most horrendous of catastrophes.
- Amanda Ripley's piece about surviving disaster was both informative and important June 23.