how to pronounce survive

/səˈvaɪv/

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survive is pronounced in two syllables

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An example use of survive in a speech by a native speaker of british english:

“… for the bees to survive winter okay …”

meaning of survive

Survive means to live through a difficult situation.

survive frequency in english - B2 level of CEFR

the word survive occurs in english on average 35.2 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for B2 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics survive can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that survive can be often used in the following areas:

1) people, society, and culture;