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overcome vs survive

survive vs overcome

overcome and survive both are verbs.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
overcome No No Yes No
survive No No Yes No
As verbs, survive is a hyponym of overcome; that is, survive is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than overcome:
  • overcome: win a victory over
  • survive: continue in existence after (an adversity, etc.)
overcome (verb) survive (verb)
get on top of; deal with successfully support oneself
overcome, usually through no fault or weakness of the person that is overcome continue to live and avoid dying
win a victory over continue in existence after (an adversity, etc.)
overcome, as with emotions or perceptual stimuli live longer than
Difference between overcome and survive

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