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Russian
Etymology
вы́- (vý-) + жить (žitʹ)
Pronunciation
Verb
вы́жить • (výžitʹ) pf (imperfective выжива́ть)
- to survive (continue to live)
1883, Всеволод Гаршин, chapter III, in Красный цветок; English translation from A Red Flower, Philadelphia: Brown Brothers, 1911:— Если так пойдёт дальше, он не выживет, — сказал доктор и приказал кормить его как можно лучше.- — Jesli tak pojdjót dalʹše, on ne vyživet, — skazal doktor i prikazal kormitʹ jevo kak možno lučše.
- "If he goes on in this way, he will not survive," said the physician, giving special orders to have him fed well.
- (transitive) to make someone leave (an apartment, work or study place) by making their stay miserable or inconvenient, to squeeze out
Бара́шкин вся́чески стара́лся вы́жить из блиндажа́ перево́дчика Ле́вина.- Baráškin vsjáčeski starálsja výžitʹ iz blindažá perevódčika Lévina.
- Barashkin tried in every way to squeeze interpreter Levin from the dug-out.
Conjugation
Conjugation of вы́жить (class 16a perfective transitive)