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"
• entailment
• antonym
• W: (v) succumb [Opposed to: survive] (be fatally overwhelmed)
• derivationally related form
• sentence frame
• 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"