surviving
- 1Present participle and gerund of survive.
The hikers were surviving on rationed supplies until the rescue team arrived.
Surviving a major earthquake left the whole family shaken for years.
Note
One spelling does two jobs: the -ing participle of continuous tenses and the gerund that names the act itself. Check whether an object follows. Without one, it means staying alive or lasting (old customs still surviving). With one, it means coming through or outliving something (surviving cancer, surviving her husband). Sports writers also use the bare form for a team avoiding relegation, as in a club surviving in the top division.
surviving 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 → surviving: drop the e, add -ing
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