Verb

• S: (v) survive, pull through, pull round, come through, make it (continue in existence after (an adversity, etc.)) "He survived the cancer against all odds"
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• S: (v) get the better of, overcome, defeat (win a victory over) "You must overcome all difficulties"; "defeat your enemies"; "He overcame his shyness"; "He overcame his infirmity"; "Her anger got the better of her and she blew up"
• S: (v) demolish, destroy (defeat soundly and humiliatingly) "The home team demolished the visitors"
• S: (v) beat, beat out, crush, shell, trounce, vanquish (come out better in a competition, race, or conflict) "Agassi beat Becker in the tennis championship"; "We beat the competition"; "Harvard defeated Yale in the last football game"
• S: (v) wallop (defeat soundly and utterly) "We'll wallop them!"
• S: (v) down (bring down or defeat (an opponent))
• S: (v) overrun (seize the position of and defeat) "the Crusaders overran much of the Holy Land"
• S: (v) lurch, skunk (defeat by a lurch)
• S: (v) rout, rout out, expel (cause to flee) "rout out the fighters from their caves"
• S: (v) upset (defeat suddenly and unexpectedly) "The foreign team upset the local team"
• S: (v) nose (defeat by a narrow margin)
• S: (v) conquer (overcome by conquest) "conquer your fears"; "conquer a country"
• S: (v) survive, pull through, pull round, come through, make it (continue in existence after (an adversity, etc.)) "He survived the cancer against all odds"
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• antonym
• W: (v) succumb [Opposed to: survive] (be fatally overwhelmed)
• antonym
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• S: (v) arrive, make it, get in, go far (succeed in a big way; get to the top) "After he published his book, he had arrived"; "I don't know whether I can make it in science!"; "You will go far, my boy!"
• S: (v) pass, make it (go successfully through a test or a selection process) "She passed the new Jersey Bar Exam and can practice law now"