survive

Verb

• live longer than
  • She outlived her husband by many years
    

• support oneself
  • he could barely exist on such a low wage
    
  • Can you live on $2000 a month in New York City?
    
  • Many people in the world have to subsist on $1 a day
    

• continue in existence after (an adversity, etc.)
  • He survived the cancer against all odds
    

• continue to live through hardship or adversity
  • We went without water and food for 3 days
    
  • These superstitions survive in the backwaters of America
    
  • The race car driver lived through several very serious accidents
    
  • how long can a person last without food and water?
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  outlive , outlast , exist , live , subsist , pull through , pull round , come through , make it , last , live on , go , endure , hold up , hold out
• Antonyms: 
  succumb , yield