surviving

surviving
    adj 1: still in existence; "the Wollemi pine found in Australia
           is a surviving specimen of a conifer thought to have been
           long extinct and therefore known as a living fossil";
           "the only surviving frontier blockhouse in Pennsylvania"
           [syn: {surviving}, {living}]
    

Surviving \Sur*viv"ing\, a.
   Remaining alive; yet living or existing; as, surviving
   friends; surviving customs.
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Survive \Sur*vive"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Survived}; p. pr. &
   vb. n. {Surviving}.] [F. survivre, L. supervivere; super over
   + vivere to live. See {Super-}, and {Victuals}.]
   To live beyond the life or existence of; to live longer than;
   to outlive; to outlast; as, to survive a person or an event.
   --Cowper.
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         I'll assure her of
         Her widowhood, be it that she survive me,
         In all my lands and leases whatsoever.   --Shak.
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