Top 1,000verb, perfective

вы́жить

[ˈvɨʐɨtʲ]to survive

Frequency rank #940 About 1 in every 11,000 words in Russian film and TV. The top 1,000 words make up 77.5% of everything said.

выжить #940

Meaning

to survive
to make someone leave by making their stay miserable or inconvenient, to squeeze out

Бара́шкин вся́чески стара́лся вы́жить из блиндажа́ перево́дчика Ле́вина.

Barashkin tried in every way to squeeze interpreter Levin from the dug-out.

— Е́сли так пойдёт да́льше, он не вы́живет, — сказа́л до́ктор и приказа́л корми́ть его́ как мо́жно лу́чше.

"If he goes on in this way, he will not survive," said the physician, giving special orders to have him fed well.

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