Pass on
Pass on verb - To stop living.
Survive
Survive verb - To come safely through.
Usage example: the cat miraculously survived a two-story fall
Both terms in one sentence
- Natural selection favors those who pass on their genes, which requires at least some of their offspring to survive long enough to reproduce.
Source: Weaponized Offspring - Evolution works in the manner because if something wasn't tough enough it didn't survive to pass on its genes.
Source: Had to Be Sharp - Eventually Snotra is the only one of her family to survive and leave the forest.The young people helped their parents to pass on over Family Cliff, and off they went, merry and bright, on the way to Odin.
Source: Literature / Gautrek's Saga
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Survive and Pass on. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 14, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/pass_on/survive
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