Antonyms of verb survive

1 of 4 senses of survive

Sense 2
survive, pull through, pull round, come through, make it -- (continue in existence after (an adversity, etc.); "He survived the cancer against all odds")
       Antonym of succumb (Sense 2)
      => succumb, yield -- (be fatally overwhelmed)

Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb survive

4 senses of survive

Sense 1
survive, last, live, live on, go, endure, hold up, hold out -- (continue to live through hardship or adversity; "We went without water and food for 3 days"; "These superstitions survive in the backwaters of America"; "The race car driver lived through several very serious accidents"; "how long can a person last without food and water?")

Sense 2
survive, pull through, pull round, come through, make it -- (continue in existence after (an adversity, etc.); "He survived the cancer against all odds")
       => get the better of, overcome, defeat -- (win a victory over; "You must overcome all difficulties"; "defeat your enemies"; "He overcame his shyness"; "He overcame his infirmity"; "Her anger got the better of her and she blew up")

Sense 3
exist, survive, live, subsist -- (support oneself; "he could barely exist on such a low wage"; "Can you live on $2000 a month in New York City?"; "Many people in the world have to subsist on $1 a day")

Sense 4
outlive, outlast, survive -- (live longer than; "She outlived her husband by many years")

Antonyms of adj surviving

1 sense of surviving

Sense 1
surviving, living -- (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")

INDIRECT (VIA extant) -> extinct, nonextant -- (no longer in existence; lost or especially having died out leaving no living representatives; "an extinct species of fish"; "an extinct royal family"; "extinct laws and customs")

Similarity of adj surviving

1 sense of surviving

Sense 1
surviving, living -- (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")
       => extant (vs. extinct) -- (still in existence; not extinct or destroyed or lost; "extant manuscripts"; "specimens of graphic art found among extant barbaric folk"- Edward Clodd)

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