| sura | (noun) the muscular back part of the shank | Synonyms: calf |
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| (noun) one of the sections (or chapters) in the Koran | - |
| surbase | (noun) the molding or border above the base of a structure (a pedestal or podium or wall) | - |
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| surcease | (noun) a stopping | Synonyms: cessation |
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| surcharge | (noun) an additional charge (as for items previously omitted or as a penalty for failure to exercise common caution or common skill) | - |
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| (verb) show an omission in (an account) for which credit ought to have been given | - |
| (verb) fill to an excessive degree | - |
| (verb) place too much a load on | Synonyms: overcharge, overload |
| (verb) print a new denomination on a stamp or a banknote | - |
| (verb) fill to capacity with people | - |
| (verb) rip off; ask an unreasonable price | Synonyms: fleece, gazump, hook, overcharge, pluck, plume, rob, soak |
| (verb) charge an extra fee, as for a special service | - |
| surcoat | (noun) a tunic worn over a knight's armor | - |
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| (noun) a loose outer coat usually of rich material | - |
| surd | (adjective) produced without vibration of the vocal cords | Synonyms: hard, unvoiced, voiceless |
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| (noun) a consonant produced without sound from the vocal cords | Synonyms: voiceless consonant |
| sure | (adjective) having or feeling no doubt or uncertainty; confident and assured | Synonyms: certain |
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| (adjective) certain to occur; destined or inevitable | Synonyms: certain |
| (adjective) exercising or taking care great enough to bring assurance | Synonyms: certain |
| (adjective) reliable in operation or effect | Synonyms: certain |
| (adjective) physically secure or dependable | - |
| (adjective) certain not to fail | - |
| (adjective) infallible or unfailing | - |
| (adjective) (of persons) worthy of trust or confidence | Synonyms: trusted |
| (adjective) impossible to doubt or dispute | Synonyms: indisputable |
| (adverb) definitely or positively (`sure' is sometimes used informally for `surely') | Synonyms: certainly, for certain, for sure, sure as shooting, sure enough, surely |
| surefooted | (adjective) not liable to error in judgment or action | Synonyms: confident, sure-footed |
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| (adjective) not liable to stumble or fall | Synonyms: footsure, sure-footed |
| surely | (adverb) definitely or positively (`sure' is sometimes used informally for `surely') | Synonyms: certainly, for certain, for sure, sure, sure as shooting, sure enough |
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| sureness | (noun) the quality of being steady and unfailing | - |
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| (noun) freedom from doubt; belief in yourself and your abilities | Synonyms: assurance, authority, confidence, self-assurance, self-confidence |
| surety | (noun) something clearly established | - |
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| (noun) a guarantee that an obligation will be met | Synonyms: security |
| (noun) one who provides a warrant or guarantee to another | Synonyms: guarantor, warranter, warrantor |
| (noun) a prisoner who is held by one party to insure that another party will meet specified terms | Synonyms: hostage |
| (noun) property that your creditor can claim in case you default on your obligation | Synonyms: security |
| surf | (noun) waves breaking on the shore | Synonyms: breaker, breakers |
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| (verb) switch channels, on television | Synonyms: channel-surf |
| (verb) look around casually and randomly, without seeking anything in particular | Synonyms: browse |
| (verb) ride the waves of the sea with a surfboard | Synonyms: surfboard |
| surface | (adjective) on the surface | - |
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| (noun) the outer boundary of an artifact or a material layer constituting or resembling such a boundary | - |
| (noun) a device that provides reactive force when in motion relative to the surrounding air; can lift or control a plane in flight | Synonyms: aerofoil, airfoil, control surface |
| (noun) a superficial aspect as opposed to the real nature of something | - |
| (noun) information that has become public | Synonyms: open |
| (noun) the extended two-dimensional outer boundary of a three-dimensional object | - |
| (noun) the outermost level of the land or sea | Synonyms: Earth's surface |
| (verb) appear or become visible; make a showing | Synonyms: come on, come out, show up, turn up |
| (verb) put a coat on; cover the surface of; furnish with a surface | Synonyms: coat |
| (verb) come to the surface | Synonyms: come up, rise, rise up |
| surfacing | (noun) emerging to the surface and becoming apparent | - |
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| surfactant | (noun) a chemical agent capable of reducing the surface tension of a liquid in which it is dissolved | Synonyms: surface-active agent, wetter, wetting agent |
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| surfbird | (noun) sandpiper-like shorebird of Pacific coasts of North America and South America | Synonyms: Aphriza virgata |
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| surfboard | (noun) a narrow buoyant board for riding surf | - |
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| (verb) ride the waves of the sea with a surfboard | Synonyms: surf |
| surfboarder | (noun) someone who engages in surfboarding | Synonyms: surfer |
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| surfboarding | (noun) the sport of riding a surfboard toward the shore on the crest of a wave | Synonyms: surfing, surfriding |
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| surfboat | (noun) a boat that can be launched or landed in heavy surf | - |
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| surfeit | (noun) eating until excessively full | Synonyms: repletion |
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| (noun) the quality of being so overabundant that prices fall | Synonyms: glut, oversupply |
| (noun) the state of being more than full | Synonyms: excess, overabundance |
| (verb) indulge (one's appetite) to satiety | - |
| (verb) supply or feed to surfeit | Synonyms: cloy |
| surfer | (noun) someone who engages in surfboarding | Synonyms: surfboarder |
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| surffish | (noun) small to medium-sized shallow-water fishes of the Pacific coast of North America | Synonyms: surf fish, surfperch |
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| (noun) a fish of the Pacific coast of North America | Synonyms: surf fish, Umbrina roncador, yellowfin croaker |
| surficial | (adjective) pertaining to or occurring on or near the earth's surface | - |
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| surfing | (noun) the sport of riding a surfboard toward the shore on the crest of a wave | Synonyms: surfboarding, surfriding |
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| surfperch | (noun) small to medium-sized shallow-water fishes of the Pacific coast of North America | Synonyms: surf fish, surffish |
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| surfriding | (noun) the sport of riding a surfboard toward the shore on the crest of a wave | Synonyms: surfboarding, surfing |
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| surge | (noun) a sudden or abrupt strong increase | Synonyms: upsurge |
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| (noun) a sudden forceful flow | Synonyms: rush, spate, upsurge |
| (noun) a large sea wave | Synonyms: billow |
| (verb) see one's performance improve | - |
| (verb) rise rapidly | Synonyms: soar, soar up, soar upwards, zoom |
| (verb) rise and move, as in waves or billows | Synonyms: billow, heave |
| (verb) rise or move forward | Synonyms: tide |
| (verb) rise or heave upward under the influence of a natural force such as a wave | Synonyms: scend |
| surgeon | (noun) a physician who specializes in surgery | Synonyms: operating surgeon, sawbones |
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| surgeonfish | (noun) brightly colored coral-reef fish with knifelike spines at the tail | - |
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| surgery | (noun) a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body | Synonyms: operation, surgical operation, surgical procedure, surgical process |
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| (noun) a room in a hospital equipped for the performance of surgical operations | Synonyms: operating room, operating theater, operating theatre, OR |
| (noun) a room where a doctor or dentist can be consulted | - |
| (noun) the branch of medical science that treats disease or injury by operative procedures | - |
| surgical | (adjective) relating to or requiring or amenable to treatment by surgery especially as opposed to medicine | Synonyms: operative |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or involving or used in surgery | - |
| (adjective) performed with great precision | - |
| surgically | (adverb) in a surgical manner; by means of surgery | - |
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| surging | (adjective) characterized by great swelling waves or surges | Synonyms: billowing, billowy |
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| suricate | (noun) burrowing diurnal meerkat of southern Africa; often kept as a pet | Synonyms: Suricata tetradactyla |
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| surjection | (noun) a mathematical function that is an onto mapping. | Synonyms: onto function, surjective function |
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| surlily | (adverb) in a churlish manner | Synonyms: churlishly |
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| surliness | (noun) a disposition to exhibit uncontrolled anger | Synonyms: biliousness, irritability, peevishness, pettishness, snappishness, temper |
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| surly | (adjective) inclined to anger or bad feelings with overtones of menace | Synonyms: ugly |
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| surmisable | (adjective) capable of being inferred on slight grounds | Synonyms: presumable, supposable |
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| surmisal | (noun) a message expressing an opinion based on incomplete evidence | Synonyms: conjecture, guess, hypothesis, speculation, supposition, surmise |
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| surmise | (noun) a message expressing an opinion based on incomplete evidence | Synonyms: conjecture, guess, hypothesis, speculation, supposition, surmisal |
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| (verb) infer from incomplete evidence | - |
| (verb) imagine to be the case or true or probable | Synonyms: suspect |
| surmount | (verb) get on top of; deal with successfully | Synonyms: get over, master, overcome, subdue |
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| (verb) be or do something to a greater degree | Synonyms: exceed, outdo, outgo, outmatch, outperform, outstrip, surpass |
| (verb) reach the highest point of | Synonyms: scale |
| (verb) be on top of | - |
| surmountable | (adjective) capable of being surmounted or overcome | - |
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| (adjective) capable of being surmounted | Synonyms: climbable |
| surmounted | (adjective) having something on top | - |
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| surmounter | (noun) someone who overcomes and establishes ascendancy and control by force or persuasion | Synonyms: overcomer, subduer |
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| surmullet | (noun) brightly colored tropical fishes with chin barbels | Synonyms: goatfish, Mullus surmuletus, red mullet |
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| surname | (noun) the name used to identify the members of a family (as distinguished from each member's given name) | Synonyms: cognomen, family name, last name |
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| surpass | (verb) be or do something to a greater degree | Synonyms: exceed, outdo, outgo, outmatch, outperform, outstrip, surmount |
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| (verb) move past | Synonyms: go by, go past, pass, pass by, travel by |
| (verb) distinguish oneself | Synonyms: excel, stand out |
| (verb) be greater in scope or size than some standard | Synonyms: exceed, transcend |
| surpassing | (adjective) far beyond what is usual in magnitude or degree | Synonyms: exceeding, exceptional, olympian, prodigious |
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| (adjective) exceeding or surpassing usual limits especially in excellence | Synonyms: transcendent |
| surpassingly | (adverb) to an extraordinary degree | Synonyms: passing |
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| surplice | (noun) a loose-fitting white ecclesiastical vestment with wide sleeves | - |
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| surpliced | (adjective) wearing a surplice | - |
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| surplus | (adjective) more than is needed, desired, or required | Synonyms: excess, extra, redundant, spare, supererogatory, superfluous, supernumerary |
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| (noun) a quantity much larger than is needed | Synonyms: excess, nimiety, surplusage |
| surplusage | (noun) a quantity much larger than is needed | Synonyms: excess, nimiety, surplus |
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| surprint | (noun) something added by overprinting | Synonyms: overprint |
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| surprisal | (noun) the act of surprising someone | Synonyms: surprise |
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| surprise | (noun) the act of surprising someone | Synonyms: surprisal |
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| (noun) a sudden unexpected event | - |
| (noun) the astonishment you feel when something totally unexpected happens to you | - |
| (verb) cause to be surprised | - |
| (verb) attack by storm; attack suddenly | Synonyms: storm |
| (verb) come upon or take unawares | - |
| surprised | (adjective) taken unawares or suddenly and feeling wonder or astonishment | - |
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| surprisedly | (adverb) in the manner of one who is surprised | - |
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| surpriser | (noun) a captor who uses surprise to capture the victim | - |
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| surprising | (adjective) causing surprise or wonder or amazement | - |
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| surprisingly | (adverb) in a surprising manner | - |
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| (adverb) in an amazing manner; to everyone's surprise | Synonyms: amazingly, astonishingly |
| surprisingness | (noun) extraordinariness by virtue of being unexpected | Synonyms: unexpectedness |
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| surreal | (adjective) resembling a dream | Synonyms: dreamlike |
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| (adjective) characterized by fantastic imagery and incongruous juxtapositions | Synonyms: phantasmagoric, phantasmagorical, surrealistic |
| surrealism | (noun) a 20th century movement of artists and writers (developing out of dadaism) who used fantastic images and incongruous juxtapositions in order to represent unconscious thoughts and dreams | - |
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| surrealist | (noun) an artist who is a member of the movement called surrealism | - |
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| surrealistic | (adjective) characterized by fantastic imagery and incongruous juxtapositions | Synonyms: phantasmagoric, phantasmagorical, surreal |
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| surrebuttal | (noun) (law) a pleading by the plaintiff in reply to the defendant's rebutter | Synonyms: surrebutter |
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| surrebutter | (noun) (law) a pleading by the plaintiff in reply to the defendant's rebutter | Synonyms: surrebuttal |
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| surrejoinder | (noun) (law) a pleading by the plaintiff in reply to the defendant's rejoinder | - |
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| surrender | (noun) the act of surrendering (usually under agreed conditions) | Synonyms: capitulation, fall |
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| (noun) the delivery of a principal into lawful custody | - |
| (noun) a verbal act of admitting defeat | Synonyms: giving up, yielding |
| (noun) acceptance of despair | Synonyms: resignation |
| (verb) give up or agree to forgo to the power or possession of another | Synonyms: give up |
| (verb) relinquish possession or control over | Synonyms: cede, deliver, give up |
| surrenderer | (noun) a person who yields or surrenders | Synonyms: yielder |
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| surreptitious | (adjective) marked by quiet and caution and secrecy; taking pains to avoid being observed | Synonyms: furtive, sneak, sneaky, stealthy |
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| (adjective) conducted with or marked by hidden aims or methods | Synonyms: clandestine, cloak-and-dagger, hole-and-corner, hugger-mugger, hush-hush, secret, undercover, underground |
| surreptitiously | (adverb) in a surreptitious manner | Synonyms: sneakily |
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| surrey | (noun) a light four-wheeled horse-drawn carriage; has two or four seats | - |
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| surrogate | (adjective) providing or receiving nurture or parental care though not related by blood or legal ties | Synonyms: foster |
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| (noun) a person appointed to represent or act on behalf of others | Synonyms: deputy |
| (noun) someone who takes the place of another person | Synonyms: alternate, replacement |
| surround | (noun) the area in which something exists or lives | Synonyms: environment, environs, surroundings |
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| (verb) surround so as to force to give up | Synonyms: beleaguer, besiege, circumvent, hem in |
| (verb) surround with a wall in order to fortify | Synonyms: fence, fence in, palisade, wall |
| (verb) extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle | Synonyms: border, environ, ring, skirt |
| (verb) envelop completely | Synonyms: smother |
| surrounded | (adjective) confined on all sides | Synonyms: encircled |
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| surrounding | (adjective) closely encircling | Synonyms: circumferent, encompassing |
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| surroundings | (noun) the area in which something exists or lives | Synonyms: environment, environs, surround |
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| (noun) the environmental condition | Synonyms: milieu |
| surtax | (noun) an additional tax on certain kinds of income that has already been taxed | Synonyms: supertax |
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| (verb) levy an extra tax on | - |
| surtitle | (noun) translation of the words of a foreign opera (or choral work) projected on a screen above the stage | Synonyms: supertitle |
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| surtout | (noun) a man's overcoat in the style of a frock coat | - |
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| surveil | (verb) keep under surveillance | Synonyms: follow, survey |
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| surveillance | (noun) close observation of a person or group (usually by the police) | - |
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| survey | (noun) the act of looking or seeing or observing | Synonyms: sight, view |
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| (noun) a detailed critical inspection | Synonyms: study |
| (noun) short descriptive summary (of events) | Synonyms: resume, sketch |
| (verb) consider in a comprehensive way | Synonyms: appraise |
| (verb) plot a map of (land) | - |
| (verb) make a survey of; for statistical purposes | - |
| (verb) hold a review (of troops) | Synonyms: go over, review |
| (verb) look over carefully or inspect | - |
| (verb) keep under surveillance | Synonyms: follow, surveil |
| surveying | (noun) the practice of measuring angles and distances on the ground so that they can be accurately plotted on a map | - |
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| surveyor | (noun) an engineer who determines the boundaries and elevations of land or structures | - |
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| (noun) someone who conducts a statistical survey | - |
| survival | (noun) something that survives | - |
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| (noun) a natural process resulting in the evolution of organisms best adapted to the environment | Synonyms: natural selection, selection, survival of the fittest |
| (noun) a state of surviving; remaining alive | Synonyms: endurance |
| survivalist | (noun) someone who tries to insure their personal survival or the survival of their group or nation | - |
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| survive | (verb) support oneself | Synonyms: exist, live, subsist |
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| (verb) continue to live and avoid dying | Synonyms: endure, go, hold out, hold up, last, live, live on |
| (verb) continue in existence after (an adversity, etc.) | Synonyms: come through, make it, pull round, pull through |
| (verb) live longer than | Synonyms: outlast, outlive |
| surviving | (adjective) still in existence | Synonyms: living |
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| survivor | (noun) an animal that survives in spite of adversity | - |
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| (noun) one who outlives another | - |
| (noun) one who lives through affliction | Synonyms: subsister |