What is the meaning of surviving?

verb

• Continue to live through hardship or adversity.
  • usage: "We went without water and food for 3 days"; "These superstitions survive in the backwaters of America"; "The race car driver lived through several very serious accidents"; "how long can a person last without food and water"
  • synonyms: survive, last, live, live on, go, endure, hold up, hold out
• Continue in existence after (an adversity, etc.. )
  • usage: "He survived the cancer against all odds"
  • synonyms: survive, pull through, pull round, come through, make it
• Support oneself.
  • usage: "he could barely exist on such a low wage"; "Can you live on $2000 a month in New York City"; "Many people in the world have to subsist on $1 a day"
  • synonyms: exist, survive, live, subsist
• Live longer than.
  • usage: "She outlived her husband by many years"
  • synonyms: outlive, outlast, survive

adjective

• Still in existence.
  • usage: "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"
  • synonyms: living