surviving

Meanings

• continue to live through hardship or adversity
• continue in existence after (an adversity, etc.)
• support oneself
• live longer than
• 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"

Synonyms

come through, endure, exist, go, hold out, hold up, last, live, live on, living, make it, outlast, outlive, pull round, pull through, subsist, survive