Existed vs Survived - What's the difference?
existed | survived |
(exist)
to be; have existence; have being or reality
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(survive)
Of a person, to continue to live; to remain alive.
Of an object or concept, to continue to exist.
To live longer than; to outlive.
* Shakespeare
* 1817 , (Walter Scott), Rob Roy , X:
To live past a life-threatening event.
(sports) Of a team, to avoid relegation or demotion to a lower division or league.
As verbs the difference between existed and survived
is that existed is past tense of exist while survived is past tense of survive.existed
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(head)exist
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(en verb)- Various relationships may exist between character and glyph:
- , regardless of whether those characters also existed in other character encoding standards.
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Synonyms
* beDerived terms
* existence * existent * existential * existentialist * existentialism * existentiallyExternal links
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(head)survive
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(surviv)- His children survived''' him; he was '''survived by his children.
- I'll assure her of / Her widowhood, be it that she survive me, / In all my lands and leases whatsoever.
- ‘I am afraid, as will happen in other cases, the treaty of alliance has survived the amicable dispositions in which it had its origin.’
- He did not survive the accident.