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surviving

3 syllables
adjective
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As an adjective, surviving means still in existence.

Meanings of surviving

1 meaning

verb

Present participle of survive

adjective

  1. Still in existence

    “the Wollemi pine found in Australia is a surviving specimen of a conifer thought to have been long extinct and therefore known as a living fossil”

    “the only surviving frontier blockhouse in Pennsylvania”

    Similar: living

Meanings from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).

Synonyms by meaning

adjective: still in existence
living

Words that rhyme with surviving

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