survivor
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- noun
- /sərˈvaɪvər/
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superviviente
- A few months after the party, George died, leaving Mary to join other survivors of her sex.
- survivor testimony
- survivor benefits
- Holocaust survivors
The hardest thing in the world is for survivors to trust their instincts.
- The hardest thing in the world is for survivors to trust their instincts.
- And he said after nuclear war, the survivors would envy the dead.
- He works locally with refugee survivors from around the world.
- Naomi Wolf, who I cited earlier, is a survivor of anorexia.
- But there's, you know, survivor's remorse that comes with it.
- So I will say that the pandemic hit survivors of trafficking really hard.
- And so we're, it's obvious there's no survivors at this point.
- We've been searching high and low for survivors, for anyone that could testify.
- Some of these girls, even victims, previous victims, survivors of sexual assault.
- And she's a survivor of sexual abuse.
- And I guess you were the survivors, so thank you for being here.
- It means that most of their survivors, I'm predicting they died.
- It means doing what most survivors have had to do for years.
- This the the survivors of police will get.
Examples
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The hardest thing in the world is for survivors to trust their instincts.
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As pounding waves crashed over the survivors, they wondered: would help arrive in time?
Academic text (2011) -
You are the only survivor?
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So why these survivors and why these stories?
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And I guess you were the survivors, so thank you for being here.
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We are survivors... are we not?
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I understand they spotted some survivors near the wreckage.
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Then, like many other survivors, he started digging people out of the wreckage.
Academic text (2011) -
PTSD has been documented in survivors of such traumas as flood, fire, or rape.
Academic text (1990) -
After the earthquake, the community rallied to support the survivors who lost their homes.
Antonyms
Compounds
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8.3
A strong sadness and the feeling that it is your fault for being alive when other people died
How Successful
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Morphology
Etymology
Survivor comes from the verb survive, made from Latin parts super- 'over' and vivere 'to live'. So a survivor is someone who 'lives beyond' a danger and keeps living after a hard or life-threatening event.