English-Czech translations for survive

• přežít
• přežívat
  Letiště však také musejí přežívat. Airports have to survive too, however.

Definition of survive

• Of a person, to continue to live; to remain alive
• To live longer than; to outlive
• To live past a life-threatening event
• To be a victim of usually non-fatal harm, to honor and empower the strength of an individual to heal, in particular a living victim of sexual abuse or assault

Examples

• His children survived him; he was survived by his children.
• He did not survive the accident.

Related words

• survived
• survived a failure
• to survive