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surviving

verbadjectivecommon in dialogue

Continuing to live or to exist.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of survivepresent participle and gerund of survive

adjective

  1. 1

    Continuing to live or to exist.

    The legacy was divided among the surviving children of the deceased.

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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).