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WordBand 5.5–6.5Core (NGSL)
survive
/səˈvʌɪv/
verb
to continue to live despite illness or trouble
- “I can still survive in this temperature without air conditioning.”Tatoeba
- “In that village, peasants often shared their harvests to survive.”Tatoeba
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Source: New General Service List (Browne, Culligan & Phillips) (CC BY-SA 4.0); Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0); Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR)