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Survival

A living or continuing longer than, or beyond the existence of, another person, thing, or event; an outliving.

Survive

To remain alive; to continue to live.

Surviving

Remaining alive; yet living or existing; as, surviving friends; surviving customs.

Survivor

One who survives or outlives another person, or any time, event, or thing.

Susceptibility

The state or quality of being susceptible; the capability of receiving impressions, or of being affected.

Susceptible

Capable of admitting anything additional, or any change, affection, or influence; readily acted upon; as, a body susceptible of color or of alteration.

Susceptor

One who undertakes anything; specifically, a godfather; a sponsor; a guardian.

Suscipient

One who takes or admits; one who receives.

Suscitate

To rouse; to excite; to call into life and action.

Suslik

A ground squirrel (Spermophilus citillus) of Europe and Asia. It has large cheek pouches.

Suspect

To imagine guilt; to have a suspicion or suspicions; to be suspicious.

Suspectful

Apt to suspect or mistrust; full of suspicion; suspicious; as, to be suspectful of the motives of others.

Suspend

To cease from operation or activity; esp., to stop payment, or be unable to meet obligations or engagements (said of a commercial firm or a bank).

Suspender

One who, or that which, suspends; esp., one of a pair of straps or braces worn over the shoulders, for holding up the trousers.

Suspensation

The act of suspending, or the state of being suspended, especially for a short time; temporary suspension.

Suspense

The state of being suspended; specifically, a state of uncertainty and expectation, with anxiety or apprehension; indetermination; indecision; as, the suspense of a person waiting for the verdict of a jury.

Suspensible

Capable of being suspended; capable of being held from sinking.

Suspension

The act of suspending, or the state of being suspended; pendency; as, suspension from a hook.

Suspensive

Tending to suspend, or to keep in suspense; causing interruption or delay; uncertain; doubtful.

Suspensorium

Anything which suspends or holds up a part: especially, the mandibular suspensorium (a series of bones, or of cartilages representing them) which connects the base of the lower jaw with the skull in most vertebrates below mammals.

Suspensory

That which suspends, or holds up, as a truss a bandage or bag for supporting the scrotum.

Suspicion

To view with suspicion; to suspect; to doubt.

Suspicious

Inclined to suspect; given or prone to suspicion; apt to imagine without proof.

Suspiral

A breathing hole; a vent or ventiduct.

Suspiration

The act of sighing, or fetching a long and deep breath; a deep respiration; a sigh.

Suspire

A long, deep breath; a sigh.

Suspired

Ardently desired or longed for; earnestly coveted.

Sustain

One who, or that which, upholds or sustains; a sustainer.

Sustainable

Capable of being sustained or maintained; as, the action is not sustainable.

Sustained

Held up to a certain pitch, degree, or level; uniform; as, sustained pasion; a sustained style of writing; a sustained note in music.

Sustainment

The act of sustaining; maintenance; support.

Sustaltic

Mournful; -- said of a species of music among the ancient Greeks.

Sustenance

The act of sustaining; support; maintenance; subsistence; as, the sustenance of the body; the sustenance of life.

Sustentation

The act of sustaining, or the state of being sustained; preservation from falling; support; sustenance; maintenance.

Sustentative

Adapted to sustain, strengthen, or corroborate; as, sustentative citations or quotations.

Susurrous

Whispering; rustling; full of whispering sounds.

Susurrus

The act of whispering; a whisper; a murmur.

Sutler

A person who follows an army, and sells to the troops provisions, liquors, and the like.

Sutlership

The condition or occupation of a sutler.

Sutling

Belonging to sutlers; engaged in the occupation of a sutler.

Sutor

A kind of sirup made by the Indians of Arizona from the fruit of some cactaceous plant (probably the Cereus giganteus).

Sutra

A precept; an aphorism; a brief rule. A collection of such aphorisms.

Suttee

A Hindoo widow who immolates herself, or is immolated, on the funeral pile of her husband; -- so called because this act of self-immolation is regarded as envincing excellence of wifely character.

Sutteeism

The practice of self-immolation of widows in Hindostan.

Suttle

To act as sutler; to supply provisions and other articles to troops.

Sutural

Of or pertaining to a suture, or seam.

Suturated

Sewed or knit together; united by a suture; stitched.

Suture

The act of sewing; also, the line along which two things or parts are sewed together, or are united so as to form a seam, or that which resembles a seam.

Sutured

Having a suture or sutures; knit or united together.

Suwarrow

The giant cactus (Cereus giganteus); -- so named by the Indians of Arizona. Called also saguaro.

Suzerain

A superior lord, to whom fealty is due; a feudal lord; a lord paramount.

Suzerainty

The dominion or authority of a suzerain; paramount authority.

Swab

A kind of mop for cleaning floors, the desks of vessels, etc., esp. one made of rope-yarns or threads.

Swabber

One who swabs a floor or desk.

Swad

A cod, or pod, as of beans or pease.

Swaddle

To bind as with a bandage; to bind or warp tightly with clothes; to swathe; -- used esp. of infants; as, to swaddle a baby.

Swaddler

A term of contempt for an Irish Methodist.

Swag

A swaying, irregular motion.

Swage

To shape by means of a swage; to fashion, as a piece of iron, by forcing it into a groove or mold having the required shape.

Swaggerer

One who swaggers; a blusterer; a bully; a boastful, noisy fellow.

Swaggy

Inclined to swag; sinking, hanging, or leaning by its weight.

Swagman

A bushman carrying a swag and traveling on foot; -- called also swagsman, swagger, and swaggie.

Swainish

Pertaining to, or resembling, a swain; rustic; ignorant.

Swainmote

A court held before the verders of the forest as judges, by the steward of the court, thrice every year, the swains, or freeholders, within the forest composing the jury.

Swaip

To walk proudly; to sweep along.

Swale

A gutter in a candle.

Swallet

Water breaking in upon the miners at their work; -- so called among tin miners.

Swallow-tailed

Having a tail like that of a swallow; hence, like a swallow's tail in form; having narrow and tapering or pointed skirts; as, a swallow-tailed coat.

Swallowfish

The European sapphirine gurnard (Trigla hirundo). It has large pectoral fins.

Swallowtail

A kind of tenon or tongue used in making joints. See Dovetail.

Swallowwort

See Celandine. A poisonous plant (Vincetoxicum officinale) of the Milkweed family, at one time used in medicine; -- also called white swallowwort.

Swamp

To sink or stick in a swamp; figuratively, to become involved in insuperable difficulties.

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