The meaning of SURVIVING is still living after another or others have died or died out. How to use surviving in a sentence.

Her estate was divided between her three surviving children (= those who continued to live after her death).

surviving - 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 …

A surviving family member or spouse is someone who continues to live after the policyholder has died.

Surviving generally refers to the act of remaining alive or continuing to exist, often in spite of difficult circumstances, challenges, or threats. It encompasses physical survival, such as …

to get along or remain healthy, happy, and unaffected in spite of some occurrence: She's surviving after the divorce. v.t. to continue to live or exist after the death, cessation, or occurrence of: His …

1 [intransitive] to continue to live or exist She was the last surviving member of the family. Of the six people injured in the crash, only two survived. The children had to survive by begging and …

Someone who is still living, even after the death of another or the end of a situation or event, is said to be surviving. For example, if a person dies, the husband or wife is "the surviving spouse."

Survival or survivorship, the act of surviving, is the propensity of something to continue existing, particularly when this is done despite conditions that might kill or destroy it.

Some notion of the personal appearance of Alexander may be got from the literature and the surviving monuments.