English-Italian translations for survive

• sopravvivere
  Soltanto in questo modo potremo sopravvivere insieme. Only then can we survive together.
  Il bambino era destinato a non sopravvivere. The boy was not expected to survive.
  Queste imprese avevano bisogno dell' aiuto statale per sopravvivere? Did these firms need state aid to survive?

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