Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

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survive

UK /səˈvaɪv/ · US /sɚˈvaɪv/ verb

Forms survives surviving survived survivest survivedst surviveth

  1. verb (intransitive) Of a person, to continue to live; to remain alive. “Whether by a miracle or by good luck, all twenty passengers survived.”
  2. verb (intransitive) Of an object or concept, to continue to exist. “This town has been hit by two hurricanes, but it survives.”
  3. verb (transitive) To live past (a life-threatening event) “Whether by a miracle or by good luck, all twenty passengers survived the crash.”
  4. verb (transitive) To live longer than (someone); to outlive (someone or something); to outlast (something). “his children survived him;   he was survived by his children”
  5. verb (intransitive) To be a victim of nonfatal but substantial harm and nonetheless to display the strength to heal; especially, after a crime or an illness, especially sexual or physical abuse or assault, cancer, or a natural disaster. “I just know you'll get through this, because that's what survivors like you do: they not only survive but thrive.”
  6. verb (intransitive, sports) Of a team, to avoid relegation or demotion to a lower division or league. “They narrowly survived, but the heat is on.”

Synonyms

overlive last live live on go endure hold up hold out pull through pull round come through make it exist subsist outlive outlast

Antonyms

predecease succumb

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman survivre, Old French survivre, from Late Latin supervīvere (“to outlive”), from Latin super (“over”) + vivere (“to live”), akin to vita (“life”). See vivid. Compare devive, revive.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb 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.
  2. verb To remain alive; to continue to live.

Etymology [F. survivre, L. supervivere; super over + vivere to live. See Super-, and Victuals.]

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “survive”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details

Sanskrit

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “survive” (best matches first).