Definition of SURVIVING

surviving

Verb

  • continue to live through hardship or adversity
  • continue in existence after (an adversity, etc.)
  • support oneself
  • live longer than
  • present participle and gerund of survive

Adjective Satellite

  • 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"

Synonyms

come through, endure, exist, go, hold out, hold up, last, live, live on, living, make it, outlast, outlive, pull round, pull through, subsist, survive

Antonyms

succumb

Scrabble Score: 16

surviving: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
surviving: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
surviving: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 21

surviving: valid Words With Friends Word