survived
- 1Simple past and past participle of survive.
The old farmhouse survived the flood with little damage.
Several ancient customs have survived in the remote valley for centuries.
Note
One spelling does double duty: the plain past (the colony survived) and, after have, the perfect (the colony has survived). Because survive can take an object, meaning to outlive someone, the participle also appears in the passive, most familiarly in obituaries: she is survived by two daughters. Without an object it simply means lasting or holding on, as when a team survived and avoided relegation.
He is survived by his wife and three sons.
Against the odds, the club survived and stayed in the top division.
survived is a form of survive
survive, verb: To remain alive, especially in spite of danger or hardship; to live through a life-threatening event such as an accident, illness, or operation. Full entry
- Spelling
- survive → survived: add -d
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /d/.
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