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Survivor

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

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Actor 76% connected

One who acts, or takes part in any affair; a doer.

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Animal 76% connected

An organized living being endowed with sensation and the power of voluntary motion, and also characterized by taking its food into an internal cavity…

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Beast 76% connected

Any living creature; an animal; -- including man, insects, etc.

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Brute 76% connected

Not having sensation; senseless; inanimate; unconscious; without intelligence or volition; as, the brute earth; the brute powers of nature.

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Creature 76% connected

Anything created; anything not self-existent; especially, any being created with life; an animal; a man.

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Doer 76% connected

One who does; one performs or executes; one who is wont and ready to act; an actor; an agent.

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Fauna 76% connected

The animals of any given area or epoch; as, the fauna of America; fossil fauna; recent fauna.

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Unfortunate 76% connected

Not fortunate; unsuccessful; not prosperous; unlucky; attended with misfortune; unhappy; as, an unfortunate adventure; an unfortunate man; an unfortu…

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Worker 76% connected

One who, or that which, works; a laborer; a performer; as, a worker in brass.

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Live 74% connected

To be alive; to have life; to have, as an animal or a plant, the capacity of assimilating matter as food, and to be dependent on such assimilation fo…

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Live 74% connected

To be alive; to have life; to have, as an animal or a plant, the capacity of assimilating matter as food, and to be dependent on such assimilation fo…

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Survive 74% connected

To live beyond the life or existence of; to live longer than; to outlive; to outlast; as, to survive a person or an event.

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Survive 74% connected

To live beyond the life or existence of; to live longer than; to outlive; to outlast; as, to survive a person or an event.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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