SURVIVING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does surviving mean? 

• SURVIVING (adjective)
  The adjective SURVIVING has 1 sense:

1. still in existence

  Familiarity information: SURVIVING used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SURVIVING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Still in existence

Synonyms:

living; surviving

Context example:

the only surviving frontier blockhouse in Pennsylvania

Similar:

extant (still in existence; not extinct or destroyed or lost)

 Context examples 

However, until now, scientists had never found evidence of a surviving giant planet around a white dwarf.

(First Giant Planet around White Dwarf Found, ESO)

Chlordane is very persistent in the environment, surviving in soils for more than 20 years.

(Chlordane, NCI Thesaurus)

He was the last surviving member of the Voskhod programme crew.

(Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov dies at age 85, Wikinews)

The living organisms are capable of surviving in outer space.

(Mutated Terrestrial Bacteria That Return from Space Pose Threat to Life on Earth, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

After surviving a disaster, people may feel dazed or even numb.

(Coping with Disasters, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

Before vaccines, people became immune only by actually getting a disease and surviving it.

(Immunization, NIH: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases)

It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it; and it may be doubted if, from that day forth, Utterson desired the society of his surviving friend with the same eagerness.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

But if it were inexplicable to me, the appearance of the chart was incredible to the surviving mutineers.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Person surviving past expected longevity for a particular disease.

(Long Term Survivor, NIH CRISP Thesaurus)

Every body had a degree of gravity and sorrow; tenderness towards the departed, solicitude for the surviving friends; and, in a reasonable time, curiosity to know where she would be buried.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)