survive
part of speech
verb (survive, survives, survived, surviving)
meaning for a pupil
1) To survive means to stay alive, especially through something dangerous. tree →
2) To survive means to last through something hard and still be there: the old church survived the storm. tree →
3) To survive someone is to live longer than them. tree →
sense in the lessons
Maths: the part that is left after some die or are lost, like plants or fish that survived: survivors = total − lost. Science: living things need food, water, air and shelter to survive; animals adapt to survive. Safety and stories: surviving a storm, a shipwreck, a hard winter.
examples
- Of the 30 seeds, 24 survived. tree →
- Only half of the fish survived the winter. tree →
- 3 of the 10 trees did not survive. tree →
- How many plants survived? tree →
- Camels can survive many days without water. tree →
- Everyone survived the shipwreck. tree →
- Penguins huddle together to survive the cold. tree →
- The old castle has survived for hundreds of years. tree →
- She refuses to survive him, and is buried by his side. tree →
note
Regular: survived, surviving. Noun: survival, survivor. «Survived» marks the part that is left. Trap: «3 did not survive» gives the lost part; the survivors are total − 3.
In the corpora
- The oldest surviving camera photograph, by Nicéphore Niépce in France around 1826 or 1827, needed hours or even days of exposure.
- Crocodiles survived the asteroid too, and they are closer relatives of birds than of lizards.
- Released animals often wear radio collars or satellite tags, so scientists can see whether they find food, survive and have young.
- Fewer than half of wild lion cubs survive their first two years.
- Many moths rest still on trees looking like bark, and when factory soot darkened trees, dark moths survived better than pale ones.
Trees and pragmatics
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