stay alive
Don't die yet
To stay alive is to continue living, to not die.
The phrase often implies effort or struggle against threatening circumstances: The lost hikers rationed their food to stay alive.
It can also describe maintaining viability in competitive contexts: The team needs to win tonight to stay alive in the playoffs.
- keep goingMaintain forward progress
- persevereContinue despite obstacles
- existHave actual being
- thriveFlourish with vigor
- beat the oddsSucceed despite unfavorable likelihood
outlast · endure · against all odds · hold out · improvise · recover · survive · subsist · withstand · continue · persist · make it · cope · sustain · hang on · heal · pull through · nourish
stay alivecease to be
Exit from existence
fade away · wither away · disappear · come to an end · peter out
stay alivegive up the ghost
Die or stop functioning
succumb · lose one's life · fall · wither away · fade away
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