Used in a Sentence

survived

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for survived.

Editorial note

The microcomputer is by far the longest living of all generations, having survived through three decades.

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Parts of speech1

Quick take

(intransitive) Of a person, to continue to live; to remain alive.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of survived gathered in one view.

verb

(intransitive) Of a person, to continue to live; to remain alive.

verb

(transitive) To live past (a life-threatening event)

verb

(transitive) To live longer than (someone); to outlive (someone or something); to outlast (something).

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for survived.

verb

(intransitive) Of a person, to continue to live; to remain alive.

verb

(transitive) To live past (a life-threatening event)

verb

(transitive) To live longer than (someone); to outlive (someone or something); to outlast (something).

verb

(intransitive) Of an object or concept, to continue to exist.

Example sentences

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The microcomputer is by far the longest living of all generations, having survived through three decades.

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The cost is less to them which is why they have survived.

3

Were they not hired me from outside of their geographic area, they would not have survived today.

4

Axe's claim was that it would fire off its payload and be destroyed in dogfights by any planes that survived.

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But last year, 62 cops were murdered while on duty.[1] Even more were shot and survived.

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Technically, Atari and Commodore survived to the 90's but both were gone by the mid 90's.

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They should have also done Japan or Taiwan or some other countries where it would have survived before attempting the USA.

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Even earth has survived 5000 years of civilizations with the last 200 at that level.

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You only see the old stuff that was so exceptionally well-made that it survived.

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If Apple had tried to evolve the II series they probably wouldn't have survived.

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Anyone reading posts of high-security engineers pushing strong hardware and software security pre-Snowden would've survived almost everything in NSA's toolbox using such methods.

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Bitcoin survived long enough to become within a reasonable approximation of self-sustaining...

Quote examples

1

Anybody knows if the "Windows 7" style full disk backup survived in Windows 10?

2

More accurate would be "consumer PC company that survived into the 1995s"

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use survived in a sentence?

The microcomputer is by far the longest living of all generations, having survived through three decades.

What does survived mean?

(intransitive) Of a person, to continue to live; to remain alive.

What part of speech is survived?

survived is commonly used as verb.