surviving (verb)

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• surviving — survive sur‧vive [səˈvaɪv ǁ sər ] verb [intransitive, transitive] 1. if a business survives, it manages to continue operating, even though it is in a very difficult situation: • To survive, companies will have to focus on staff development. • The …   Financial and business terms

• Irregular verb — In contrast to regular verbs, irregular verbs are those verbs that fall outside the standard patterns of conjugation in the languages in which they occur.When comparing languages, one measure often brought into play as one of the few quantitative …   Wikipedia

• Defective verb — In linguistics, a defective verb is a verb which is missing e.g. a past tense, or cannot be used in some other way that normal verbs come. Formally, it is a verb with an incomplete conjugation. Defective verbs cannot be conjugated in certain… …   Wikipedia

• survive — [c]/səˈvaɪv / (say suh vuyv) verb (survived, surviving) –verb (i) 1. to remain alive after the death of someone or after the cessation of something or the occurrence of some event; continue to live. 2. to remain in existence after some person,… …  

• survive — verb ADVERB ▪ well ▪ The frescoes have survived remarkably well. ▪ Seedlings survive better in stony soil. ▪ barely, hardly ▪ The islanders …   Collocations dictionary

• ride out — verb hang on during a trial of endurance ride out the storm • Syn: ↑last out, ↑stay, ↑outride • Derivationally related forms: ↑stayer (for: ↑stay) …   Useful english dictionary

• survive — verb (survived; surviving) Etymology: Middle English, to outlive, from Anglo French survivre, from Latin supervivere, from super + vivere to live more at quick Date: 15th century intransitive verb 1. to remain alive or in existence ; live on 2.… …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• borrow — verb 1》 take and use (something belonging to someone else) with the intention of returning it.     ↘take and use (money) from a person or bank under agreement to pay it back later. 2》 Golf allow (a certain distance) when playing a shot to… …   English new terms dictionary

• come — verb (past came; past participle come) 1》 move or travel towards or into a place near or familiar to the speaker.     ↘arrive.     ↘join in a specified activity: do you want to come fishing? 2》 occur; happen. 3》 occupy or achieve a specified… …   English new terms dictionary

• manage — verb 1》 be in charge of; run. 2》 supervise (staff). 3》 be the manager of (a sports team or a performer). 4》 administer and regulate (resources under one s control). 5》 maintain control or influence over (a person or animal). 6》 control the use or …   English new terms dictionary

• survive — verb 1 (I, T) to not die in an accident or war or from an illness: Only 12 of the 140 passengers survived. | survive sth: There are concerns that the refugees may not survive the winter. 2 (I, T) to continue to exist in spite of many difficulties …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English