survivor : Idioms & Phrases


shipwreck survivor

  • noun a shipwrecked person
    castaway.
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survivor guilt

  • noun a deep feeling of guilt often experienced by those who have survived some catastrophe that took the lives of many others; derives in part from a feeling that they did not do enough to save the others who perished and in part from feelings of being unworthy relative to those who died
    • survivor guilt was first noted in those who survived the Holocaust
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survivors insurance

  • noun insurance paid to surviving spouses
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