Survived

Survived is the past tense and past participle of the verb survive. It denotes continuing to live or exist after a dangerous event, or enduring through hardship, threat, or adverse conditions. It can describe people who lived through illness, accidents, or disasters, as well as nonhuman things that endure, such as a species that has survived a drought or a tradition that has endured amid changing circumstances.

Origin and forms: Survive comes from Old French survivre, from Latin super- "over" and vivere "to live." The past tense and past participle are formed regularly in modern English as survived. The word is used in various registers, from clinical reports to news narratives and literary prose.

Usage and nuance: Survived emphasizes endurance through danger or adversity, often with the sense of coming safely through. It is sometimes interchangeable with "live through," though the latter can foreground the experience itself. In scientific contexts, "survived" may describe persistence after exposure to a stressor, and in cultural contexts, it may appear in accounts of disasters, wars, and long-term continuities.

Related terms and examples: survival (the state or act of continuing to live), survivor (a person who has survived), survivability (the capacity to survive). Example sentences: She survived the crash; The species has survived for centuries.